t this way to be cool or to make others laugh at that person. I think that being mean is NOT cool. I will talk about the consequences, and the aftermath of when kids are mean to one another.Sometimes people are mean to each other because it makes the person who is being mean feel better about themselves by making the victim ashamed. Also, most of the time bullying will start with a kid just making a random joke, and then the person who is making the joke will go too far by accident and start hurting the other person. The person being made fun
of will not think it was very funny, but others will join in on the joke and laugh at the poor victim. Think about it this way- always remember the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated. Would you like to be made fun of all the time? If your answer is no, then don’t be mean.Some negative outcomes of being mean are - it hurts other people feelings, it makes the person feel uncomfortable, and it could possibly make someone feel worse about themselves. Also, if you act really mean to someone, you could get reported for bullying. Then, you could even get a detention. Being mean isn’t just when someone hurts the person emotionally, but it can also include physical behavior. An example of that is when a bully pushes and shoves another kid out of line to cut ahead of everyone else. Another example of mean physical behavior is when a bully starts a fight and begins punching and hurting the victim.
Personally, I think most of the time when kids are being mean to one another they just don’t notice that they are. Some signs of mean behavior can be as simple as not letting someone hang out with you or be in your group. I see it happen all the time, kids being mean to one another and excluding someone from their group because of something as little as they don’t like the way someone dresses.
To conclude this article I would like to add that you should not be mean to anyone un
der any circumstances. If the person is being nice to you, why not be nice back? Maybe there are people you know who don’t like this person, so what? If someone is nice to you, there is no reason that you should treat them any less than you would want to be treated. Also, you should put yourself in other people’s shoes. For example, imagine that you are trying to make a friend who will accept you for who you are, but people keep shutting you out of their group because of a bad rumor that WAS NOT true. How would you feel if you were that person? Think about that, and don’t be mean to someone just because your best friend told you something about that person that may not be true.By, Morgan
Morgan,
ReplyDeleteClearly you have strong feelings about how people should and should not treat one another. You are correct that many people act mean because they somehow feel it makes them better. There ARE only bad consequences for everyone involved in acting meanly.
You noted two commonly used sentiments (that's a big word for a shared feeling about something): following the golden rule and treat others as you wish to be treated. Those phrases have hung on from old to young because they're entirely right.
Well done.
Mr. Lagana