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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I might as well jump in the fray here... [b]WWII Argument[/b] [i]Second, CANADA DID VERY LITTLE, if at all to keep Britain from being completely annexed by the Germans.[/i] There's more to fighting than just the fighting. There's the support and financing and commerce and supplies. Did you guys know that South Africa very nearly sided with the Nazis during the war? Hardly suprising considering Apartheid years later, but a large portion of the (white) South African population supported Germany. And some believe that it was South Africa's assistance in shipping and commerce which helped tide Britain over during the worst months. Consider that the Germans were not only bombing the English cities from the air, but sinking their food and clothes and ammunition at sea. And they came very close to starving Britain to defeat. [b]On Topic, or The Bullying Threat[/b] There's not much to be said here, but legislation against bullying is obviously not the answer. It's not going to stop the kids, the teachers have enough on their hands without wading into the relationships of more than two dozen little kids. I'm someone who could be considered a victim myself, as in that I was the target of calculated and repeated bullying all through grade school. I went to an inner city school, so most of the kids were black and came from a vastly different culture than me. (The background is complex and NOT racial. I won't go into it much here.) Suffice to say that because I was a lot different from them, I was often the target of jokes and ridicule. There was the time the entire class of 20 students crowded around me during lunchtime, and one of them told me to take a bite of my sandwich. They all started laughing at me because of my unconscious habit of wiping my mouth with my napkin after almost every bite. Then there was the time half the class started chanting "You heard the nerd" during recess. Or any of a dozen or more incidents during my five years there. You haven't heard about me in the papers. Sure, I thought about doing a number of very nasty things to some of my classmates over the years. But I never ever planned to actually DO any of them. The thing is that that kind of decision can't be addressed directly. It can only be helped by surroundings and support and family and friends. I had those. Some of these kids probably didn't. I don't have any real "solutions" to this kind of problem. Partially because I can't imagine actually taking such violent action myself, or even anyone I've known doing something like that. It's an attitude, for me. Maybe I'm just too much of a nice guy. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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