South Hadley Bullying Blog (Masslive)

First of all I need to already disagree with the enactment of the anti-bullying law. The Massachusetts State Legislature is trying to intervene in something that has been part of human nature since the beginning of time. Something people have tried to change time and time again; but frankly, bullying is a part of growing up. I am not saying that it is okay, I am just questioning the motivations of the law. Bullying will never be stopped, so why not stop the "new age" phenomenon of people killing themselves as a solution. This isn't just in South Hadley. This is and has been happening for a few years now. I just feel like more can be done to prevent people from hurting themselves than from preventing the bullying. I am sympathetic to these situations, but to be brutally honest these suicides would not happen like they are now even twenty or thirty years ago. The new age media has something to do with this, because instead of these "victims" finding ways to deal with the bullying (fighting back, talking to their parents, talking to their siblings, talking to their guidance counselors, ETC.) they are willing to give up their lives to get back at their bullies. This big case in South Hadley justifies that statement entirely. So I think this blog and study is looking at the wrong issue. They should be teaching people how to deal with bullying, and not trying to prevent bullying.