What did you decide was your "optimal course of action" when considering "the schoolyard bully problem"?

I am still looking for an optimal course of action. I like NVC, not good at it in practice. It needs to be supported until it becomes habitual.

I love the idea of worker owned cooperatives. When I first discovered Steem I saw it as a way of funding such endeavors but soon realized it would be too easily attacked by the powers that run this place.

Please forgive me for giving you the background on where my violence came from and what ended it. My father was a very violent man and I witnessed my mother severely beaten several times. This is where my hatred of bullies came from and for some strange reason I have never had any fear in violent or potentially violent situations. Surprisingly that alone has kept me safe in some very challenging situations.

Anyway the old man did not want me to live under and delusions of how the world really operates. I was shown a graphic film of atrocities committed in India, in the interests of Empire.

The day my violence ended was a lesson. The lesson was about how great our Empire was and dealt specifically with our actions in India. I had already seen in graphic detail what we had done there. My class mates without exception as far as could tell, were overwhelmed with joy to learn of our supremacy. Me on the other hand, without any doubt was against this violence.

I realized:
I could not go along with it
I could not be a part of it.
Everyone around me was in favor of it
If I apposed it in the wrong way, with the wrong people, there are those who would not hesitate to kill me upon the command of another.
On account of my own violence, I was made Prefect a year early which gave me license to beat people up without suffering any negative consequences.
I realized that i was already part of their system.
I realized i needed to find another way to end the madness.

When I told my mother that I was afraid, she inquired ''what are you afraid of'' I was unable to answer her.