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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by bullies who are

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really just a group of misunderstood kids desperately trying to figure out why [Guy making a girl hit herself in the face]

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you're hitting yourself... Okay the senior class contains a group

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of bullies no one is quite sure who the bullies are because they cover

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themselves in jerseys what might be administration try to do and here are the

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potential answers...All right.....

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Okay you know what they say about bullies can't live with them can't live

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without them that doesn't sound right you know what they say about bullies if

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you can't beat them join them okay no there are no sayings about bullies you [Boys bullying a kid on a bus]

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know why because they suck and they don't deserve their own saying, which is

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kind of its own saying. The key to this question is part about the jersey by [People wearing football jerseys]

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covering up and forming a group or mob each individual bully in the group is

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able to feel decreased self-consciousness and self-restraint

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picture yourself at a party dancing mingling and then suddenly don't stop [Boy dancing at a party]

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believin comes on the stereo naturally everyone starts to sing and you join in [Girls singing don't stop believing at the party]

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starting at a low hum by the second chorus you're eventually screaming the

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words at the top of your lungs along with everyone else no problem right? Well

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that is until everyone stops singing along at the same exact moment except [People stop singing and boy singing alone]

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for you, not so confident anymore are you? Well that's what's happening with the

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bullies except with a little less off key falsetto...The key to the

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answer then is eliminating this decreased sense of self-consciousness [Bullies disappearing in a field]

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and we wouldn't do that by facilitating more friendly social gatherings, nor

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blaming the victims nor incentivizing the bullies to tattle and while some of

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you might be inclined to agree that terror simply is a part of high school

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have you been to a gym class on dodgeball day? That answer is a [Man throws dodgeball at boy and amulance rushes down a road]

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little too morbid and defeatist for our taste So no the answer is clearly C when we

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were talking about all that decreased feeling of self-consciousness and

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self-restraint we were actually describing the term D individualization

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which means exactly what it sounds like an individual feels less like an [A group of young boys stood together]

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individual and more simply like a part of a group allowing them to do things

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they otherwise wouldn't. by removing this and forcing the bullies to act as

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their own individual identities they just might behave differently of course you

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might just end up with a huge number of vigilante bullies operating individually [Bully hiding behind a tree]

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but you take your chances right?

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