Prison

When I was in prison, there wasn't much to do but talk.

As you might expect the lowlives in prison love to be spiteful and gossip. Always looking to
put someone down to make themselves feel superior.

The guards were pretty much the same, just thugs, sadists, hacks.

But I digress.

At one point, a young kid was pointed out to me in the yard, and I was told what was supposedly his story. He was in for a long stretch, for murder.

Seems this kid had an older brother who perpetually bullied him.
One day they were sitting at the table and the kid was having trouble opening a bag of chips.
You know how that can sometimes be a bit tricky or frustrating, it has happened to all of us.

The kid reached for a steak knife to puncture and slice open the bag.

His brother laughed with hate and contempt, sneering, "Look at the little PUSSY! So weak he needs a knife to open a bag of chips!"

The kid then did the right thing. He stabbed his brother to death with that steak knife.

Now, in that moment I wanted to go over to that kid in the yard and shake his hand, hug him, tell him that he was my hero, and that he did the right thing.

I didn't. Can't remember why. I never did talk to him. I regret that.

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There are degrees of murder in the law. Based primarily upon what was in the mind of the killer at the time.

I'm wondering why there are not degrees of victimization. Maybe there are. I don't know.

But where is the understanding in the world that injuries are not all felt equally?

All my life I've been hearing "No one likes a tattletale", "you're the only one complaining"
"suck it up, be a man", "dont be a #######1, stop complaining"

Emotional wounds don't show. And they never ever heal. And absolutely no one cares.

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When the news reports that some kid walked into a school and shot his teachers, or someone shot up a movie theater, what is your first thought?

Do you think, "That's terrible!" ?

My first thought is, "I wonder what they did to piss him off?"

When any group torments someone so much that they are moved to murder, that is a very GOOD thing. Because that group is corrupt and has totally failed.

If even one person is bullied, EVERYONE in the group is responsible, and deserves death.
That is the only way to end bullying, to make every single individual totally accountable.

No more turning the other way, pretending not to see. No more telling the victim to "suck it up".

Literal death sentence for bullies and those who harbor bullies.

That is what I call for, by law.

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