Bullies and Group-Thinkers

Why do the group-thinkers in the room not protest when a bully demeans another person in the room?

 
Because it didn't affect them.

 
The group-thinkers only care if an injustice is done if it is personally against them. This is an indictment against them of a lack of justice in their hearts.

 
They will justify their silence with the excuse that they might start an argument, but in reality, they are worried that they will be attacked too, as the one who is mean or rude for calling out the offender.

 
When justice is paramount, supremely important, above self-preservation, we care more about the individual who has been unjustly shamed than we do about what the group will think of us.

 
Galatians 6:2 "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
It is more important to defend the innocent than to be loved by a group that cares only to support the bully to spare their own discomfort.

 
When someone does not correct the bully, they are a bully themselves. There is a saying, "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

 
It is not love to ignore the antics of the bully; it is not love for the victim of the bully, it is not love for the bully, it only increases his path to destruction because of the empowerment he feels when the group-thinkers are silenced, causing an increase in his wickedness.

 
Psalm 82:3
"3 Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute."

When we love the victim, we comfort them!
If we love the bully, we discipline them to learn their sin so they will repent.