Thank you.

No, you cannot fight fire with fire. You can't defeat hate with more hate.

I've been bullied before, and I did give up once.

I was beaten so badly that it became a police matter and the four assailants were taken to court.

As we were all kids, it got as far as the local Magistrate's court.

The Magistrate asked me, "Are you frightened of this girl?" (The ringleader.)

I replied, "Yes." Well, why not? She and her friends had kicked the living shit out of me and I can still show you the damage they inflicted - I have regular physio for some of it.

It was later - days, weeks, months - that my mind mulled it all over (as my mind does) and I started to think on my answer.

Four of them had beaten and kicked me, yet they hadn't killed me and while I'm not dead I can still get up and fight.

I fell off a horse a few years ago and hurt my shoulder. After 2 years of pain, I went to a physio. I didn't have a pulled muscle as I'd thought, I'd torn the muscles from the top 4 vertebrae in my spine and it wasn't healing, just hurting.

I can handle physical pain and still function.

This isn't painful, this doesn't hurt. These bullies aren't actually affecting me in any way that bothers me and while they're concentrating their efforts on me, how many people that they do bother are they leaving alone?

I look at it that I'm doing a public service and some people are getting some respite.