# What do you think of this solution to bullying?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-solution-to-bullying/712319>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 10, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-solution-to-bullying/712319 "2015-02-10T18:53:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-solution-to-bullying/712319/61 "2015-02-15T00:46:03Z")

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> [@protoboard](#):
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> Here are my proposals. **Obviously this isn’t realistic at all** , but in a truly just world this is how it would go down IMO.

Let’s just leave it at that.

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-solution-to-bullying/712319/62 "2015-02-15T01:27:40Z")

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On the plus side, I’ve added “weregild” to my vocabulary. On the negative side, I’ll forget it before I have occasion to use it.

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-solution-to-bullying/712319/63 "2015-02-15T01:49:46Z")

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> [@August\_West](#):
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> How about this idea:  
> There are quite a few retired professional football players and wrestlers who are still very physically strong but just not up to the rigors of daily participation in their sport.  
> Hire them, place one in every school. If a student is seen bullying someone, the “professionally bully” is called in to bully the miscreant 1.5 times more intensely.
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> Obviously we’ll need a committee to determine intensity levels of bullying, this could be done at the Federal level by the Department of Education. Perhaps a “bullying pyramid” or other such simple reference could be developed.
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> Bonus: many ex-football players and wrestlers suffer from traumatic brain injuries and suicidal thoughts, so this would help them feel like they still have a purpose in life.
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> There, I defy you to develop something stupider than that.

Dress them in Batman costumes.

ETA: Oops-you said “stupider”. I thought you wrote “more awesome”

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