Bullying, an evolutionary redundancy

If you believe in Evolution, which I do, you could look at the way that school bullying would play a part in evolutionary terms. It's the tougher kids weeding out the week ones. This makes sense if you are looking at the world over 5000 years ago when the world was run by the physically stronger. As we move forward into the world we see less need for brute strength and more focus on the need for a more nurtured and developed mind. This is where nerdy became cool and the trend for the IT crowd came about. When we grow up we realise that pushing people around is no longer the way to get things done effectively. Within most societies Fascism has been deemed an ineffective way to run things and that it makes more sense to allow for communication from all areas of  society. Even in organisations, the manager is no longer the dictator or the business, they involve the business in all decisions and good communication is found to be key. So if we are making these big steps forward in our life, as an evolution of a community mindset why would we accept that bullying is just something that kids need to get out of their system or that it is a necessary evil that they need to experience in order to grow up, ready for the real world. In the "real world" do we accept having somebody isolated and humiliated. I believe that we have moved forward from that sort of behaviour. 

We have given our women and people of all races and religions the right to vote, the right to work in a workplace and to be treated as equals. So why should the way that our children are treating each other stay at a stand still. Well I suppose it's not. In fact it's getting worse. More sophisticated. Where the majority of school yard bullying was physical and performed by the big boys picking on the little boys now it is easier for kids to do it to each other over social media pages and text messaging. Now most culprits of bullying are girls and they attack with psychological warfare. The strongest and smartest of minds can be attacked simply by one little girl starting a mean page about a student and asking her friends to hit like. Think about all of the great ideas that we would be missing out on because the smart kids in class are pushed so far as to withdraw from sports, withdraw from their piers, withdraw from school and even withdraw from life. How many inventions will these children have lost the confidence to discover?

It's difficult to stop children from bullying, we all have the: "kids will be kids" mindset, but that doesn't make it OK and it doesn't mean we should accept it as a necessity of life.

So don't let your more evolved counterpart be squished at a young age before he can find you a cure for cancer.