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 their 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 physical violence to provoke fears in the others.
Ways to intimidate
Meanwhile, those practices can range from mild verbal threat, 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 greater punishment will fall on them that will seriously affect their physical integrity or that of someone close to them, up to what it is popularly known to pass on to older people, when directly, without any threat, the person attacks, causing fear and fear in the receiver, in order to subject him to any of his intentions and ends.
Both fear and fear are disturbances that people's spirits can suffer and that turn out to be unpleasant in both cases, that is why, as far as possible, human beings when we can try to avoid those scenarios that lead to such disturbances . Meanwhile, such unpleasant feelings 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 by case they are proposed through violence and instilling fear in citizens who do not dare to 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 in society, doing campaigns of the kind, if you do not support us, something bad will happen to you, your family and 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 voters to choose their proposal to the detriment of the other.
For example, they are told that if they vote for such a candidate, poverty will ensue 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 for another proposal because They say that if they continue as they are, they will soon be worse off and a tremendous crisis will break out even more.
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 him physically and also psychically, generating a loss of his 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, the targets of bullying can develop suicidal actions.
