Romney the bully?

[Menelik_I]

Well, that explains why Obama is childless and alone, for sure. It's a cold, harsh life, having to be educated at Harvard.

Also, it's an interesting pathos at work here. In a thread about useless news about an obscure topic in a man's faraway childhood, here you are deflecting it with equally useless stories about an equally obscure topic in an equally faraway childhood, not only legitimizing the original argument but engaging in the same obtuse behavior. Perhaps even more obtuse because now you're being cheap and pedantic about it.

I am just Trolling the Romney Haters, illustrating the stupidity of the thread

[Lord Zhang Ku]

I am just Trolling the Romney Haters, illustrating the stupidity of the thread

I believe the topic had since shifted from Romney to bullying in general.

[Thanatos]

Survival of the fittest. Get over it, it is the evolutionary process.

Might does not make right. It only proves who in that moment was stronger. Just because you can have your way with other people does not mean it can be justified in any sort of actual moral setting.

Saying that "all the kids do it," or that "we all did it before," does not justify reprehensible behavior.

[Rebel Jeb]

What are morals? We're animals. The strongest survives and it prolongs our race. The bullied should learn from their experience and grow stronger than the bully. It just brings up the race as a whole.

[s.rwitt]

Good God.
He's trolling. He just admitted it.

[Basil II the B.S]

I would like to personally thank republicans and democrats for making fool of themselves in this thread. Keep entertaining me, please.

[Rebel Jeb]

Good God.
He's trolling. He just admitted it.

No I'm dead serious. Just looking at this through my science goggles that I bought from Sci-Fi monthly.

I would like to personally thank republicans and democrats for making fool of themselves in this thread. Keep entertaining me, please.

Aha! He isn't talking about me because I'm a Libertarian.

[s.rwitt]

Oh, sorry, that was menelik. But you're very clearly doing it too. And doing a very poor job of it. PM justicar or heinz for pointers.

[Claudius Gothicus]

Survival of the fittest. Get over it, it is the evolutionary process.

Didn't Republicans deny the existence of Evolution?

[Matthias]

Sorry if some of you don't find the thread relevant, but it's more Romney's response to the incident, playing it off as a harmless prank, that I was interested in more than the bullying itself. If you find the thread "useless", you certainly don't have to post in it, haha.

[fkizz]

I doubt it. Do you have a study? I know you guys loveeee studies. Bullying is natural because man, as a race, is always competitive. It is part of human nature and will never, ever change.

Bullying is NOT competition. This lacks logic.

Also many bullies have been bullied, sometimes even harder than their own bullying. It's a cicle. Bullying is more of sort of pathological behaviour rather than competition. Yes, pathologies and backwardness will always be part of humanity.

Personally I had bullying attempts, a decisive punch in the face worked wonders.

Not only was the only option avaliable, but solved the problem fast. I don't aprove of violence, but well, had no real choice.

Also am I the only one who notices that christians acknowledge in practice survival of fittest but deny it with faith in theory, while atheists acknowledge it in theory but don't subscribe to a good society model of it in practice?

(as in, survival of the fittest as a society motto would destroy it/make it horrible)

[Grouchio]

Because humans are animals...?

Human psychology is far different than those of other animals, except for their closest relatives, the apes. If we were the same as a cow why do we eat them and they don't eat us? We are the same in a biological sense, in that we are all made up of cells and have similar body structures and originate from the same ancestor. But to say that we can also say that we are the same as a tree, or a rock, as everything on Earth were originally made from some supernova. We can do virtually anything, given time. But technically a chicken can as well but that is simply not acceptible as they will have to undergo very extreme mutations during the evolution of a gazillion years to have brains nearly as advanced as ours. If we are the same as elephants. why is it that we can hunt them and use their tusks as ivory? Can't they do anything on their own? No they can't. They stomp us, we shoot them. In the end the brain is the ultimate weapon.
Does that answer your question?

[John F. Kennedy]

Survival of the fittest. Get over it, it is the evolutionary process.

You're a creationist, I thought you believed in good-will towards men.

Oh wait, just the straight, white Christian ones. My bad.

[Kitsunegari]

He's just your typical unprincipled, slick political type, very similar to Obama though their careers have followed very different trajectories. It wouldn't surprise me if many politicians engaged in bullying or other antisocial behavior in their childhoods.

[mrmouth]

Its just classic how this yet again, with the pictures, shows that this man is the silver spoon that never really gets any respect outside of the other silver spoon groups of people.

[Big War Bird]

I'm thinking everyone at that school may have had a silver spoon, so to speak.

[Thorn777]

Sponsored by Newt Inc.

[Jean=A=Luc]

I don't suppose it's occurred to anyone that "survival of the fittest =/= survival of the physically strongest"?

Humanity has long ago abandoned physical might as the primary survival attribute. We are hugely dependent on technology and cerebral aspects of life when it comes to our continuance. Not that the ability to inflict violence has lost all merit, it's just that it's mostly not as "muscular" anymore.

Look at Stephen Hawking. Anyone who can walk could beat the crap out of him but that's not the point, is it?

Hell, even in the animal kingdom not every creature (not even most of them I'd wager) relies on pure physical strength. Some rely on flight, speed or camouflage to survive. Others use chemical defenses or numerical superiority, etc.

Romney's just a jerk. Big ing surprise. Moving on.

[Mr. Scott]

Hey guys... Obama smoked marijuana in college.
OMG!!!!! SOMEONE MUST TELL THE VOTERS!!!!


Come on people. This has zero relevance to their actual performance as president.

[Count of Montesano]

There's bullying and then there's bullying. Picking on a kid you don't like is one thing, physical assault and extreme humiliation are another. Would we so blithely wrack this up as "boys will be boys" if Romney staged a "mock lynching" of a black kid in high school or got in trouble for drawing a swastika on the Jewish kid's desk? No - people would recognize those as hate crimes. IMHO, pinning the gay kid to the ground, cutting off his hair, and letting him know in unspoken terms that things will get a lot worse if he doesn't stop acting queer is on the same level of abuse. Remember, Romney wasn't just a participant, it sounds like he was the ringleader. And since the latest psychological studies show that the biggest homophobes often are closeted gay/bi-sexuals themselves, that makes me question whether Romney has a whole other personality he's trying to hide.

Then again, my conservative friends say this is far less of a deal than Obama smoking dope as he was breaking felony laws.