Bullies, as opposed to opponents, are dangerous. What happened along the way? How did they get to the point of this? What are they trying to achieve? What's the agenda? What is the desired outcome?
Can you keep yourself from being drawn in to the taut? Do you really have to just hit them in the nose? Is it as simple as pulling a Ralphie?
I once heard that j'had is a war on evil, but not on the evil "out there". It's a war against the evil within yourself. I guess bullies more than anything else cause us to punch the bully within in the nose and then maybe we won't end up as a bully one day.
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I don't know if pulling a Ralphie is simple, but it does illuminate how things changed when Ralphie "snapped".
Being afraid of those who can physically crush us is a pretty good survival mechanism. Being afraid of those who maniuplate our fear like some dark kung fu is far worse than a bloody nose. Ralphie found his physical and emotional strength in such a public way that the entire power structure of the playground was rewritten in a matter of seconds.
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