Response to an essay

In the essay about bullying Sam, click here, her quote about the bully relates to the ASTI constitution because it shows several of the items on the constitution. His quote 

Unlike most people doing this same assignment, I have the shame to say that it was I who started the alliance.  After a while a started to have regrets about what I was doing, I wanted to start to be nicer, but the people who I dragged into the situation made me believe that the cool thing to do was to continue to gang up on the person.

           (Cut out)  The reason bullies choose not to make friends is because when they see someone that is different they don’t try to be friends with them because they don’t know how to make friends, so they bully them because it amuses their peers.

 This quote by Sam shows items on the ASTI constitution such as include, don't exclude. This item is showed when he brings in the topic about having regrets and starting to feel he should act nicer. When he brings this up, in my mind, it implies that he wants to include that person after making him feel really horrible because of his harassment towards that person. This part of the quote explains why he wants to include that victim after bullying him and not exclude him.
Another example of a constitution being related to this quote is build mutual trust and respect. I think this is shown in the quote because the bully as mentioned, doesn't know how to make real friends and so he results in bullying other people so his peers will think he's cool. His peers wouldn't respect him if it was not for his mean attitude. This quote shows building mutual trust and respect the wrong way, but still shows that the bully is getting respect.
Also, this quote shows the concept of, taking responsibility for your words and action because Sam admitted shamefully to starting an alliance against someone and didn't blame someone else for the cruel alliance. Therefore this quote shows, include, don't exclude, building mutual trust and respect, and taking responsibility for your actions and words.

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Witnessing bullying or harassment is horrible to watch when it has happening to a close friend or a helpless person. A time when I have been part of an alliance that made someone feel bad was a regret and is a regret everyone will decide later on. Harassment towards that person was led to anger and hatred towards him. This made me feel better as it made him feel worse. With an alliance of people on my side in agreement made me feel right and the victim being hated not only by me, but everyone else. During this moment, I felt relief as everyone agreed with me, but looking back I feel I have lost a relationship that could’ve prospered throughout years and years of school. Doing this, I was flustered with a successful feeling, but I feel now that that harassment towards him was not worth losing a relationship with a human being and that I should make it up to him. There are others times being part of an alliance with someone else that made another person feel bad, but that was not real hatred towards the other person, but just being helpful to a friend in need of humans that agree with him. As humans, ganging up with an alliance to cause harassment to a specific person will not always give the relief that it gives during the moment.
In situations, there are always one maybe two options to take in order to get out of the situation or get in. One option in building an alliance to make someone feel bad was to dismantle the alliance and just leave the person alone. Another option was to actually hurt that person enough until I was relieved because that was my main goal in building an alliance. The options are either continuing or stop in the middle of the process. Options in joining a friend’s alliance to cause harassment towards a person were either to lose a not close friend or help a good friend out. I would help out the closer friend because I know him better. My options in these sorts of situations are not always moral but they are the correct options in making a quick choice to help a friend out.
People bully others because of jealousy or as mentioned, their hatred towards the person/people. When you’re jealous of someone that person is probably better than you at something, so you try to make her feel worse than you by bullying her. When bullying her, you try to make her feel the jealousy that you feel in order to be satisfied or know that she doesn’t have the best life. When you hate someone, you’d just like to put them down because what they’ve done to you in the past. People bully others because they don’t want to be the one feeling down and don’t want to know that the person they hate is always doing better than them.
Bullies hurting people is different than bullies hurting their peers. When they hurt people, those are just the people they may or may not know them, and might not even know their bullying them. Though, bullies’ hurting their peers is a different story. Peers are people we work with everyday. We have to get along with them in order to be able to work well. Bullies may hurt their peers because they are doing better than them. When they hurt their peers because their peer is doing better than them, it may make them feel as if the peer’s life isn’t all so good because after your harassment, they are feeling down and possibly worse than you. Bullying is just a method one may use to feel better about their self by making the other person who is superior to them, feel worse.