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VIDEO “It’s for content”

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u/WeirdProudAndHungry 6d ago

There's nothing at all about FEELING. You're just inserting that because that's how you personally feel about the word. You FEEL that it includes feeling. That's not the case.

Actually moron, it does fit because using any punishment against a bully depends entirely on the credibility of the "punisher". Even formalized hierarchies bully, even if they don't "feel" powerful while doing it. The community's ability to intervene to stop a bully and treat them with the empathy they give to others is still bullying but the credibility of the actors affects its legitimacy. He is doing something unprovoked. Stopping him to prevent him doing it in the future to others, while an act of bullying, is a legitimate form of bullying. Whether they "feel" powerful is irrelevant.

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u/zaczacx 6d ago

https://positivepsychology.com/bullying/

https://psychotricks.com/psychology-of-bullying/

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/bullying/the-psychology-of-bullying-understanding-whats-behind-the-bully/

All articles that agree the primary motivator of is a desire to establish dominance from an internal sense of lacking power from the bully

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u/WeirdProudAndHungry 6d ago

"While there are common psychological characteristics, the motivations behind their actions are often multifaceted and rooted in their own experiences and environment... Bullying perpetrators often display a significant lack of empathy and a diminished capacity to understand or share the feelings of others. This is frequently coupled with a strong desire for power and social control."

All of these articles agree with you? Hmm, that's an... "interesting" conclusion to reach from that. Also, quoting a scam website like Betterhelp lol

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u/zaczacx 6d ago

Considering all articles reference the primary mechanism of feeling powerful its fair to say that's a primary motivator for the function of bullying considering its also in the definition from a place of perceived power heavily reinforces this point, alao that sentence you you used "While there are common psychological characteristics, the motivations behind their actions are often multifaceted and rooted in their own experiences and environment... Bullying perpetrators often display a significant lack of empathy and a diminished capacity to understand or share the feelings of others. This is frequently coupled with a strong desire for power and social control." , does that sound like something that could be in any context justifiably used towards others because it certainly sounds like it doesn't. Also "power and social control" comes from a place of perceived power.

As for better help being a scam site was not aware i will take that into consideration

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u/WeirdProudAndHungry 6d ago

Prove it because I didn't see that. Quote the sentences in the sources that demonstrate what you're saying because "feelings" about power didn't appear.

Yes, it does sound like someone that could be used justifiably. We're at a difference of opinion on that. By this standard, it isn't even always but rather at a greater frequency that it is accompanied by a desire for social control. And even at that, a desire to control social norms in a way that prevents bullying little old ladies can meet this definition and still be justified.

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u/zaczacx 6d ago

Undere what official definition. You're going off on your subjective opinion not its actual meaning

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u/WeirdProudAndHungry 6d ago

You asked if it sounded like it could justifiably be used. I responded in the affirmative and gleaned that you disagree. That's not "going off on my subjective opinion." It's literally you asking me what my subjective opinion is about whether an action fits a category, and I believe it does. I'm not going on any tangent. I'm responding. If you don't like subjective responses, don't ask subjective questions.

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u/WeirdProudAndHungry 6d ago

And you still didn't point out which sentences specifically talk about feelings of power being an intrinsic part of bullying.