Concept in Definition ABC

Intimidate implies the action of instill fear and dread in someone from various practices that are known a priori and that therefore it is known that they will cause the intended effect on the recipient.

Inspire fear in another to bend his will and thus obtain the desired end

The mission of intimidation is to bend the will of another or others in order to achieve the ends proposed by the bully, who is usually an individual with a dominant profile and who likes to use threats, weapons and violence physical to provoke fear in others.

Ways to intimidate

Meanwhile, those practices can range from mild threat verbal, anticipating the person in question that if they do not cease their actions, or failing that, if they do not carry out the intended action, a Major punishment that will seriously affect your physical integrity or that of someone close to you, even what is popularly known to pass to seniors, when Directly, without threatening, the person attacks, causing fear and fear in his receiver to subject him to any of his intentions and purposes.

Both fear and fear are disturbances that people's spirits can suffer and that turn out to be unpleasant in both cases, for that, as far as possible, human beings when we can try to avoid those scenarios that lead to such disturbances. Meanwhile, such feelings Unpleasant are usually taken advantage of, as we mentioned above, by those who want to get a person to modify a behavior, an opinion, an idea, among other alternatives.

A common practice from politics

For example, in the political field, the action of instilling fear and fear, intimidating, has been and is a very recurrent practice of those who promote or support totalitarian systems, in which freedom and opinion are not welcome, of course, and for example are proposed through violence and instilling fear in the citizenship that they dare not oppose their designs.

Thus, it is in this way that most of the dictatorships throughout the world and throughout the centuries have survived.
Limiting individual freedoms, curtailing rights, and of course also putting fear into society, making campaigns of the type if you do not support us, something bad will happen to you, to your family and to the country.

But beware that this practice has also been and is widely used by democratic systems, when the time comes for important elections, for example the presidential ones, and then the ruling party, and for its part the opposition that wants to come to power at all costs, appeal to instill fear in the voters so that they choose their proposal to the detriment of the other.

For example, they are told that if they vote for such a candidate, the poverty and the economy will fall, and many other issues that obviously have a negative impact on the community and they are afraid to change, that is, vote for another, or vote on another proposal because they tell you that if they continue as they are, they will soon be worse off and a crisis will break out even more tremendous.

Bullying at school, the famous bullying

On the other hand, in the school environment it is also very frequent to come across this action, which is popularly known as bullying, in the English language or school bullying in our language.

This practice consists of the aggression that a schoolmate perpetrates against another, of the same age, or older or younger in age and who is weaker.
It assaults you physically and also psychically, causing a loss of your self-esteem, the corresponding feeling of fear and many more disorders such as not being able to sleep, depression and physical ailments.
In the most serious cases, targets of bullying can develop suicidal actions.