From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 00:08:11 MDT
All right, so I happened upon this passage last night:
"The candidates added to their appeal by announcing a
program of reforms that did away with many of the key
components of Sulla's constitution; in particular,
they revived the powers of the Tribunes. This was not
a disinterested measure, for it gave [Pompey and Crassus]
a handy mechanism for bullying or bypassing the Senate.
So we have in this (book about Cicero) an example where
the writer intends for "bullying" to not necessarily
include a feeling of cruelty---merely, I suppose, to
include intimidation.
The writer of this is English, and I wonder if American
usage implies inclusion of cruelty.
Lee
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> Subject: What is Bullying?
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>
> On occasion the criticism of some of us by others takes
> on the form, it is sometimes said, of "bullying". I
> rather would like to know what is meant by that.
>
> (Now since we all agree that bullying is a very bad thing,
> I aim to find out what else is bad because it falls in the
> category therewith.)
>
> To me, bullying takes place ordinarily between children,
> in which bigger or stronger ones derive a satisfaction,
> a glee, in the tormenting of weaker individuals. Among
> adults, one might think of scenes in certain tough bars
> where the same would hold true. It is widely believed
> that certain Nazis were bullies, insofar---as I
> understand it---part of their motivation for beating
> up people was the intrinsic gratification that the act
> itself aroused.
>
> But I am wondering if the term doth have a wider meaning
> than I thought.
>
> Lee
>
>
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