RicOlie_2 said:

I agree. I certainly don't want to see it become illegal to insult people, or something dumb like that, because it limits free speech and also is so open to interpretation that all sorts of trouble would come from it. That is not something that any government should be involved in, so we need to watch how we deal with this problem. The truth is that there is no one solution to bullying, but we often try to treat it as if there were. It is something that ought to ideally be addressed case by case, on a personal basis. Unfortunately, that often isn't possible.

Yeah sadly I think that is true and where the danger lays because it always seems like we get into trouble when we try to find one answer to a problem as broad as this one.

Just to be clear I don't think bullying should be swept under the rug, when I was kid one of the reasons I was picked on was I would stand up for other kids that were being picked on. I just don't think that there is one solution to the problem and that we have to be careful. I also don't believe it does as much damage as we give it credit for if it is handled right and sadly there will always be bullies so to a certain extend kids have to learn how to deal with them when no one else is around.