The
real reason most people put up with bullies and domination behavior is
because they fear retaliation AFTER they stand up to the person. This is
something children learn as they get older. Smaller children don't fear
retaliation, so they stand up to other kids, and make noise when they
need or want something. As children get older, they discover that when
they stand up to a bully, there can be ...consequences
to pay later. Either the bully will do something to "get them back", or
the bully will get others to gang up on the child and HELP "get them
back", or the child will be punished for standing up for him or herself
by biased or ignorant adults. Bullies get away with their behavior while
they're growing up because they aren't getting punished by the adults
around them, obviously. If they aren't getting punished for the initial
behavior, they aren't getting punished for the retaliation behavior
either. So they keep doing it and doing it, further and further. To
protect themselves from the retaliation behavior, people learn to turn
away from bullies and let them get away with their crap, rather than
stand up to them and risk the retaliation behavior, which is usually
much more ridiculous than the initial bullying behavior. Bullies seem to
believe they have the "right" to treat others with silly disrespect,
and when no one calls them out on it, and everyone just cowtows to them
because they fear retaliation from the bully or others around them, they
confirm it in their heads that they do indeed possess this right,
because they are (for some unknown reason) "better".
