@jwildeboer
It would be rather inappropriate to react to your story with Like/Favourite, so let's do this: "am with you there".
Re the rest of this interesting discussion: I get what all of you mean. Inspecting my own emotions and thoughts about this topic, I, however, am not clear what I think about this. Words lead to acts, which lead to words.
> Würdet ihr wollen, dass Euer Kind so auf dem Schulhof gerufen wird?
This indeed strikes close to home. Yet, personally, I also think, some level of harshness of the kind you mentioned turned out to be useful for me personally in my life. When child, I was often on the bullied side. It felt bad, but in the end all that experience, negative and positive made me a person I am today and I am happy I who I am. Do I wish for my children to be bullied like you describe, or as I experienced? No. Do I want them to become resilient like I believe I became? Yes. Do I want hem to get there by bullying, etc.? No. Do I recognise it's perhaps a necessary step in an individual's life to cross such a chasm? Probably. Do I want to put everybody else (all the victims you invoked earlier) to go through this? Probably not - it's none of my business to tell others how they should live their life.
All that is to say that I do not exactly know what I think about this. Intriguing...
