Four of every five Irish teenagers claim they have been victims of cyber-bullying

The usual regressive lunacy from bogsidebunny! If cultures cannot change maladaptive, destructive behaviors, and if people are inherently either "weak" or "strong" and cannot change, why would anyone bother with education? We send young people to school to learn because we know that people can change, because cultures can (and in this area, must) become more respectful and nurturing of diversity, and because we know that individuals can empower themselves with knowledge. But someone who lacks education cannot appreciate its capacity to empower people or to improve cultural traits. I suppose there's no other way for such a person to think except in terms of survival of "the strong," as in bogsidebunny's "theory." The truly "strong," however, are far more likely to be the well educated than those who are contemptuous of education and who derive their self-image from bullying others.

First of all in the Irish culture, bullying is common and takes many forms. from the non-vocal "evil-eye" to the shout down/cut-across diatribe and eventually to the house or car burning. Yup, all these do happen including the burning of houses and cars. So short of shutting down of the Irish internet connection cybre-bullying will NEVER stop. Secondly, bullying is an international, inter-cultural trait amongst young people. It's one of the not-so-nice infantile, self-preservation traits. Most people grow out of these if their culture instills ideals like mature interaction with others. My take on bullying is the Darwin theory, the weak shall be removed from the gene pool and the strong will go on the reproduce even stronger generations.

I hate to see anyone suffer. Children being abused, whether by adults or their peers is a terrible thing. How can we call ourselves a civilized world when as societies we do so little to prevent abuse?