Thread by @robertoblake

Here is how peer pressure works:

People will try to use collectivism and that power of public group shaming to tear you down and make you comply with them against your will.

They will strip you of your agency by getting together to harass and tease you until you give in.

Would you say that is an accurate definition of peer pressure and bullying?

If a group of people get together and were to attack you and shame you and use their belief system as a justification to pressure you against your will, to say or do things you don’t believe in so they will accept you, that’s bullying right?

Would you consider a group of calling someone names, and attacking them and trying to force them to behave differently, and be part of their group and threatening to embarrass them and harass them as toxic behavior?

Do you think dehumanizing people, harassing them, and trying to pressure and compel them to behave in the way you want against their will or at their expense is every justified?

All you have to do is ask yourself if what you are doing to someone is what you would stand by and let happen to the person that means the most to you in this world.

Someone’s beliefs or morality would never be an excuse for you and would never be a good enough reason.

Most of the suffering in the history of humanity has been a result of ppl trying to strip other ppl of their agency and force their values on to them w/o their consent.

It has always been that at its core. Bullies justifying their behavior through the lens of their morality.