All adults teach us how bad bullying is but why isn't it a crime yet? From just excluding someone in a group to severely injure someone,
bullying can vary in many different ways. With all the educations in school
and/or at home, bullying is still happening around us very commonly. Bullying
can be in different forms, victims can get bullied in many ways. Verbal
(calling names), physical (punching), social alienation (excluding victim from
a group), cyber bullying (bullying on internet), disability (bullying to
victims with disability), racist (mean words to victims’ race, culture…),
sexual (mean words to a victim’s gender), homophobia (mean words to victim’s
sexual orientation); these are just some examples of different types of
bullying. Should bullying be consider a crime? Here are the disadvantages and
advantages to what might happen if bullying is a crime, also my opinion of
considering bullying a crime.
Everyone all has a different opinion and
definition of bullying. A “teasing” action to someone may be thought of bullying
to someone else. This isn’t likely to happen but what if some people pretend to
be injured or bullied, to get a chance of charging someone? There could be many
false accusations. But no one will know if it actually happened. People may be
using this regulation for other wrong purposes and what would people think of
this law? Useless? Unnecessary? Making bullying a crime may be difficult. Many
people are saying teenagers commit suicide because of the bullying happened in
school. But there are cases where teenagers commit suicide not because he/she
got bullied. Since we won’t know really know if a person actually got bullied,
experts are needed. Therapist and other educated doctors are essential to
determine if the victims are affected, whether it is physically or mentally. Although
there are some loss if bullying is a crime, there are much more benefits toward
it.
Making bullying a crime can save one's life. These are some positives things if bullying is a crime. Bullies will finally pay for what they have done to their peers; they will
get punish for what they did. The perpetrators will get an opportunity to
learn more about how bad bullying is and how much it can hurt the victim. Some bullies
bully for satisfaction; they don’t know how it feels to get hurt. This is inadequate. Another good thing is victims will not be as afraid to go to school as before. Many victims are missing or skipping school because they are suffering from bullies. Bullies who are one step to bullying someone, they will think first before
doing it. If this law happens, victims of bullying will surely reduce.
Bullying should definitely be a crime. This way more people are
educated. Bullying is just like any other crime, bullying hurts others. Making bullying
a crime can certainly make a difference, thousands and thousands of people will
feel safe, and the pain will stop. Having anti-bullying day is not enough to
promote the stop of bullying, we need to make it bigger. We need to make it a
crime.
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Great job Tiffany! I love how you showed both disadvantages and advantages about the idea of considering bullying as a crime. It is a hard decision since there may be false accusations like you mentioned but at the same time, it can also prevent lots of bullying happening around us.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, good job on eliminating the "I think" and the "In my opinion" voice. Furthermore, you used varied sources to support your ideas. This final post definitely shows improvement from your earlier posts. Keep it up!