Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

I’ve been thinking a little about this subject lately. It seems like bullying is a thing that serves the function of exacting the repressed violent desires of the social body. Who is selected for bullying is determined not primarily by the bully, but by the social group as a whole. To me this helps explain why it’s such a ubiquitous behavior; it’s a mechanism for a social group to act outside of its norms in the enforcement of its norms. To be clear, I think it’s terrible, just interesting to think about this way.

Bullies lower the fitness of targets to elevate their own standing. It's neanderthal-level social darwinism.

Neanderthal aren't around anymore, so I'd say it's Sapien-level social darwinism.