School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
People only hate what they see in themselves.
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.