First of all- Since I was under the psychotic depression, I've read up a storm of various self-help books, life philosophy and psychology books. (See also May 26, 2012)
Books written by Christian ministers and nuns based on Bible are included. The idea I've learned from those books is useful to understand the songs we perform since I took part in a band of a gospel choir as a pianist. Now today's main story:
In the era Jesus was preaching his teachings, there was a discrimination against patients of leprosy, what is now called Hansen's disease. Those people were accused as sinners, and their diseases were regarded as the result of sin of themselves or their ancestors. The motivation of such discrimination is analyzed as a fear against death: When people saw patients of skin diseases, they associated death. So they tried to distract themselves from the fear against death by discriminating those patients
According to the book I read about this fact,bully reflects wish to avoid admitting vulnerability.
With the lapse of time...
A junior high school boy who had been bullied at school killed himself last autumn. After this fact was discovered, criticism and attacks are pouring on the school and assailant students. The fact and backgrounds of this incident still awaited clarification aside... Surely, the school neglected inquiry into the incident and assailant students don't show any sincerity, So the escalation of the issue has been brought on themselves -no doubt about that. However... As I see the news that people unrelated to assailant students are attacked due to wrong information on Internet, I cannot help wondering how many people who attack the school and assailant students are really lament for the victim boy and wish to do something to eradicate bullies at schools
-including people clamoring online and media.
Excluding such cases, I suspect that there can be some reproachers who self-intoxicate a perverse sense of justice. If so, they are not unlike the assailant students. If you assert that you never bully or discriminate, you have the higher possibility to do such thing, because you are not accepting yourself as you are -including vulnerability, while everyone has such darkness of mind
-now I feel that the very thing this book says is happening. In short... Nothing comes out of chain of hatred only leading to ruin
-but it might be too premature to place it now (See also Dec. 28, 2009)