When the state wants you to have a best friend, it will issue you one.
Until then, the State is your best friend, citizen.
So the best way to discourage bullying is to prohibit close friendships? I don't know whether to vomit or cry.
It makes me want to vomit out my eye sockets.
Why are we surprised...when THERE IS NO GOD IN SOCIETY...people believe they can control everything from the weather to human nature.
Liberals always ask the dumbest questions.
They're probably threatened in that their devotion to their dogmatic worldview won't allow close friendships.
When the state wants you to have a best friend, it will issue you one.
Until then, the State is your best friend, citizen.
Sullivan was one of those savants who had the uncanny ability to relate to and cure schizophrenia without medication. Yes, they appear, and reinvent the wheel, every thirty-forty years or so.
One of Sullivan's insights was the essential value of what he called, simply, "buddies." He noted that people who had intimate(non-erotic) same-sex best friends as children, seldom developed severe mental illness later in life.
Anyone who attempts to suppress a 'best-friend' relationship ought to be considered a perpetrator of child abuse and be treated accordingly.
This garbage was obviously dreamt up by a bunch of silly adults who urgently need to get lives of their own. Amazing that they don’t grasp that best friends stick up for each other when somebody tries to bully one of them, and weaken the hold that cliques have on individual members.
It’s another crazy idea manufactered by crazy people.
It makes me sad to see how times have changed wrt having a best friend.
And, recess...
Close same-sex friendships are natural and a precursor to opposite-sex relationships. It’s cliques that need to be discouraged, if anything does. Maybe they can’t be discouraged, but the phenomenon of the In Crowd has left many a child with sad high school memories.
Bullying should be discouraged also—it’s kind of an offshoot of the In Crowd phenomenon.