POWER AND/OR RESPECT

Bullies gain power by being bullies. Students gain power by learning. Mechanics gain power by fixing things. But bullies can only gain power by being bullies, because they DO NOT LISTEN.

In order to become competent and respected in ANY profession, it is necessary to LISTEN AND LEARN. There is a REASON that I spend most of my time talking to people who question whether I am correct. NONE of us can be perfect all of the time. A LIFETIME OF LEARNING is the way that good people gain power and respect.

But bullies seem to be taking over parts of the world, even in the US, where they prefer to manipulate future shocked voters who are appalled that equal rights means exactly that. If all people are treated with respect, then who is left for the bullies to bully?

I define a bully as anyone who wants to force me to do or not do something that I want to do, when the something that I want to do does not cause damage to another human. Examples are people who want to force me to stop smoking my 3 to 5 cigarettes a day, people who want to stop women's access to birth control, people who want to force gays to pretend to be not gay or face being imprisoned and/or beat up.

The way to stop bullies is to refuse to help the bullies, If you are forced to help the bullies, then do your best to undermine the bully's plan.

But, in the vain hope that bullies can learn, I ALWAYS explain to the bully exactly WHY what s/he is doing is wrong. This does two things, the bully gets a chance to learn and it gets the bully out of my life as bullies tend to punish people by "shunning" them.

BTW, for some reason all of my taped tv shows are now deleted and someone dumped some stinky perfume in my room. This is doubly mysterious as it happened when I had locked my room while taking a bath. I also have the master tv control box in my room. Any written conclusion could be slander. Or is it libel? Dyslexia is such a %*&#@.