THE grim and tragic outcome to another case of teenage bullying – in this case, cyberbullying underlines the need for a new review of the precautions and effective steps that have been taken by the relevant authorities to curtail this revolting cruelty. Bullying in any form is repellent but the very nature of cyberbullying, which is pervasive and penetrates the privacy of its victim with relentless cruelty, is mind-blowing in the scale of its relentless attack on its victim.
None of us are impregnable, no matter how confident or sure-footed we can appear at times.
Being undermined even in an everyday work atmosphere, can be devastating to the recipient, on a particula`r day. Whether it is cyberbullying or the sly, out of sight domineering put-downs of someone who needs to feed their own ego, at the expense of someone else, deliberately taunting, humiliating or ridiculing a person just for the perverse pleasure it gives them, is one of the cruellest inflictions of mental torture there is.
We know that basically bullies are cowards at heart. They take an insidious pleasure in inflicting mental and emotional pain and humiliation on someone, for no other reason than to feed their sadistic nature.
Bullies must be stood up to – if the victims are so understandably but tragically undermined that they cannot mount their own defence, then they must be able to obtain, without any hindrance, the support and strength they need to expose the culprits. The more exposures there are the greater will be people’s intolerance and repugnance of this destructive activity which can and has had such tragic results.
