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Originally Posted by valo403
Completely disagree. Bullying will only be solved by the people who engage in it realizing that their actions have actual consequences for the people they are directed at. You won't get them all, there's always going to be scum out there, but a lot of these kids are doing it simply because they're scared to become a victim of it. When not being a bully becomes the 'cool' thing to do that fear goes away.
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I don't think bullying will ever be stopped. Ever. I don't know if you remember grade school very well but kids made fun of each other CONSTANTLY. They even made fun of the bigger kids and the usual bullies behind their backs. I don't think there is a place on this planet where kids don't bully one another.
Kids will always be kids and while I agree that schools should impose (and actually uphold) stricter punishments, I think more focus should be placed on giving bullied kids different options so they never have to resort to such horrible measures.
Basically it's a question of whether you believe that this sort of attention to bullying related suicide scares bullies and makes them realize the consequences of their actions or if it shows depressed kids a way out where they will be made into some what of a maurder.
Like I said, there are kids still making fun of her on that FB page despite her death... so I don't know if the worst bullies, the ones that inflict the real damage will ever get the message.