Another Article About Bullying

There are scientists in Canada who study the effects of bullying on the brain:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/beyond-the-blow-to-self-esteem-bullying-can-hurt-the-brain-too/article1497054/

Long term affects include, but are not limited to, physical changes in the brain and long term emotional scaring. Some children have been studied for 5 years; their ages developed from about 12 to 17.

If this article doesn't demonstrate what is wrong with a lot of systems in general, it is hard to see what will; researchers and parents knew these children were in bad situations and rather than remove them from the terror studied the affects on the kids' brains. It is absolutely horrific to know the youth of these people was sacrificed in the great name of science. Perhaps the information is helpful to some people, it is not like it is common sense: a child tormented is going to suffer some sort of consequence. But to know the torment continued in the quest for research is sickening.

Further, to realize an editor published this article without a moral context equally demonstrates a moral ambivalence that would allow such research to continue. Perhaps it is impossible to remove every child from every horrible situation, but to not to try and do so illustrates a condoning of said situation. I have mentioned Barbara Colorosa's book, "The Bully, the Victim and the Bystander" before but I cannot emphasize the importance of the message: if you watch it, you condone it. These scientists watched it, condoned it and used it for research despite the horror some of these children faced. Worse, they did this research in the aim of prevention of further bullying; do they not realize they are worse than the bullies?