I think it all boils down to this: according to my education, upbringing and everything, I am not ready to punch someone in the face, and I am not ready to be punched.
This doesn't just apply to physical fights but also to verbal fights. I've been brought up having it really easy and I am not going to get down to the level of having fights.
So when this happens, I really... I am really uncomfortable. I feel like Chance the Gardener:
Being There - End Credits - YouTube
Yeah, this is another scene. I couldn't find the one where he's in the street and meets some thugs, takes his remote control out of his pocket, and tries to change the channel.
Don't come to me with the usual accusation of "you're coward", which is really bull****, because a soldier with a gun slaughtering unarmed or poorly armed people is not more of a hero than me. Nor is a bully a hero.
The problem with me happens also when this old aunt tells me that I am old. I am not going to tell her: look who's talking, you're this much older than me!
The problem therefore comes from an unwillingness to hurt, even if it's easy and even if it means shooting on the red cross. And I am not willing to hurt simply because I am rational and producing damage is stupidity to me. Instead these trolls are willing to produce moral/physical damage and that's what this problem is like: you can't solve it because if you solved it, you'd be like them and it doesn't make sense to be like them. The real question is how could I defeat a bully without being hurt and without hurting them? That's why it is so hard... look at that veteran troll. I could have found so many weaknesses in his situation: he's at home, unemployed, totally ignorant... no career, no anything, but i didn't feel like hitting him where it hurts. So he won. The chat is replete with ignorance and stupid subjects, and they're all reassuring each other that they're the right ones, they're are the just, the ones blessed by god...
It's a very complex problem.
It's even more complex than I thought. In fact if I could make all these bullies disappear, I'd press the button. But if I have to shoot them, I am not going to do it.
And also the problem is bigger, because we all are bullies. A doctor may be bullied in the street, but at the hospital he may act as a bully with patients or nurses.
I may act arrogantly as far as using excel.
It's a long long story. In a situation or another we probably all have acted as a bully, cyber-bully, cultural-bully, intellectual bully, musical bully... you know what I mean.
A bully is someone who has power and abuses it by making others feel inferior. Or similar. I am not prone to being a bully in every situation, but I am sure I've been a bully in one situation or another, and probably am a bully on a daily basis without even realizing it.
I went off-topic. But I did manage to write down a lot on the problem. What goes on in my mind, what went on in my life, and this is the point of my journal.