Bastard is a weird insult

I find it strange that we insult people about the randomest things--like their parents' wedlock status around the time of their birth. Or their religious or ethnic backgrounds. We don't make fun of people for being too lazy to throw their trash in the trashcan two feet to their right instead of the pavement or train tracks. Or their need to snot rocket on the ground. Or their failure to wash their hands after using the bathroom. (I'm sure "poopy hands" could hit some sort of nerve somewhere, if people kept calling you that.) This person chose to leave the bathroom knowing full well they ran the risk of having some poop on their hands! They deserve to get shit (literally!) for it!

Why would that be an ick passed in private instead of a changeable flaw brought to everyone's attention at the commiter's expense. Why not chose a changeable flaw instead of an arbitrary twist of fate? Is it the hopelessness factor we love to rub in people's faces?

You were born a JEEEW. You are such a GAY. You have no BOOBIES.
Um, yeah, those are all statements of the...obvious.

Shouldn't it be more embarrassing to have something you have failed to accomplish out of blatant idiocy be more effective (at least for some sort of future good)?

Let's think about this. If we referred to all the crack heads as pee pants in a taunting manner, would we have an added fear of becoming a crack head at some point?
If we yelled dummy dropout to everyone who never completed high school, would more kids stick it out to the end?
If we taunted "you're a connn-vict" to every ...convict, would we reduce felons--or would we just get shot.

I guess ultimately, the taunters are usually the poopy pant crack head felons. They are usually the shitheads who chose to do the least possible and incapacitate others be pointing out obvious "flaws" they can't change. (Too bad O'Reilly THINKS he's a sophisticated individual). I guess taunting was never designed to benefit the taunted, or ultimately even it's taunter. Meaning, picking on someone does no good to anyone in the room, let alone the world. It's a temporary pleasure that covers mostly our own displeasure about the things we ourselves could change about ourselves and choose not to.

I wish bully were a meaner word. Like a fail proof weapon. "She leaps, bounds, rears her ugly head and unleashes the beastly roar that leaves them all lying flat on their backs, "BULLY!!!"

Or, really I wish it were a nicer word. Like role model, or mentor. I wish I could start a revolution by passing by a McDonald's or a Dairy Queen and yell "Artificially Flavored Junk Monkeys" and have the supersized masses of America drop their supersized cups of crap with fear and reach for a carrot.

It would be the best of both worlds.