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'Love your neighbour and hate your enemy'?
Saturday, May. 01, 2004 - 18:14 The other day I became rather unwittingly involved in a conversation about someone on campus who isn't very popular. The usual things - to all observers he has questionable fashion sense and under-developed social skills. In the course of the conversation, I found myself being persuaded by the people I was talking to to laugh over him being shot by someone with a BB gun and someone pouring baked beans all over his bike. Needless to say, I was absolutely horrified. One second I was smiling in an attempt to be friendly, the next I was kicking myself for being too stupid to realise where the conversation was leading. It would have been bad enough having a bitching session about someone they didn't really like. The person in question hasn't done anything offensive - he's just not liked very much. So essentially, the pranks had absolutely no semblance of moral justification, which made them bullying. I find it astonishing that educated people can be such childish bullies. Then I found myself struggling to say something, to tell them that whoever did the pranks was a bully and if they were going to accept that, they were as stupid as he/she was. But no words came out - the moment passed and my words would have sounded strange... so instead, having found their company rather unnerving, I got up and walked away. I'm so pathetic sometimes, honestly. Someday I'll overcome my timidity and tell the idiots what I think. Even if you don't like them, there is no excuse or justification for that kind of behaviour. Random word for today: monocot << last entry ... next entry >> Interesting doughnuts - Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006 Blogging, why? - Friday, Feb. 03, 2006 Dreams, climate change - Friday, Feb. 03, 2006 In the shadows - Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006 |
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