Is bullying people who are different right or wrong?

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OF COURSE IT'S WRONG! What type of question was that?

Bullying is wrong.

Bullying is extremely bad the effects of it are long lasting. I was first bullied my first day of kindergarden all the way up to tenth grade. Then again in 1991-2000 at a job I had. I re-live every act of bullying I have endured since a child I have never been able to let it go. I quit the job I was being bullied at because it was not worth it. I even plotted coming into work and killing everyone because the bullying was so bad but I relised they were not worth the murder suicide I was plotting. Knowing I could do it and choosing not to empowered me somewhat enough to be satisified with just quitting. The bullying has been so bad over the years I did think of suicide but the only thing that keeps me from doing it is there is always something cool I want to see or experience. Killing myself would be cheating myself out of these things and not to mention it would bring joy to my bullies hearts to see me die at my own hands.

Posting as someone who has been bullied before, OF COURSE it's wrong! It can have drastic consequences. I used to come home crying every day because I was being bullied through gossip. My sister (non-Aspie, but may have OCD, otherwise NT) also got bullied a lot, and she would also come home crying and she's even going to move schools next year just to get away from the bullies! I've wished I could do that sometimes, but I can't. It's wrong to bully in general. Like I said, from bullying, my sister and I would both come home crying!

Bullying doesn't always happen out of jealousy. Maybe the pretty girl who's getting bullied, sure. However, most people are NOT jealous of the kid who stares vacantly, shuffles when they walk, have poor hygiene, and no sense of fashion. No, people usually feel contempt for those people, and usually treat them as they do because the adults also secretly feel contempt for these kids. This allows bullies to get away with what they do.
Jealousy passes. Contempt seems to be for life or until the victim changes themselves.

According to Dr Phil - Bullying occurs because it's a power trip - because they can and it makes them feel good (the long and short of it).
My son has been on the receiving end of bullying (at the age of 4...) and I can't imagine that anyone who has been affected would ask whether it is OK

Bullying destroys people. It very nearly killed me; I've been through some right sh*t in my lifetime and I'll tell you, there is nothing right about bullying somebody because they present differently. Sickens me, the thought somebody would so that to someone.

It's interesting that bullying peaks in the middle school years when hormones are introduced into the human environment.

Before hormones happen, kids do get bullied but nothing like what happens when the hormones start.

The reality is humans are social animals, primates, and the hormones bring out the competitive nature among both females and males.

We live in a civilized society, and one would think this wouldn't continue to happen because we are civilized, but it does, and rarely is anyone completely immune from either being the receiver or the server of an action that someone perceives as bullying, whether it was a witting or unwitting behavior with the conscious thought of hurting another human being.

I felt like I got bullied more than any other kid in middle school, and for all practical intentions they might as well of just told me I didn't deserve to live.

The only thing I could do is swim or sink, and thankgoodness I was fortunate enough to find a way. Meanwhile most every one else in middle school was competing and getting bullied in some way or another, my concerns were one of survival, as everyone else.

I learned a lesson not to bully others from it, humility, and also was fortunate enough to gain strength through adversity through the experience. I wish life was simpler and easier than it is, but beyond our clothing, shopping malls, and homes, we all have an animal nature we must contend with.

Dr. Phil is an interesting example, he pulls no punches and tells people how it is.

Some people consider him a bully, others say his method works well.

It may seem like a strange statement, but some of those kids, in middle school were a bit like Dr. Phil; their methods were not nearly as politically correct.

At least in my case I was innocently behaving in someways that did not bode well for my future survival and my peers through their bullying notified me of it, and I changed to make myself a stronger person, although their innate attempt was probably one to eradicate me, unless I got stronger on my own.

In the life of being a social animal, in a civilized world, one would hope we might evolve into more peaceful loving animals, but it hasn't happened yet; as a whole we are pretty much the same social animals we've always been, and it doesn't appear like our culture is helping matters much, either.

I don't see bullying as morally right, but it is something that most everyone has to contend with, in life, and adapt to as well as they can to survive.

Bullying is pretty damn wrong, no ifs, no buts.

But I guess it's that some of us just seem to keep attracting sociopaths. I have continually had the knack of attracting sociopaths. It's like I'm a light, or the moon, and sociopaths are moths.