@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…
