<p>Icarus you are right, fighting with somebody could make them say what you want them to say.</p>
<p>you mention that anybody that "anyone who threatens my life or the life of a family member or friend" the thing is, you have never been in a fight before and you would loose. Gun or not. </p>
<p>You are not trained with a gun, Ive seen Gun Vs. Knife fights where the person with the knife has won. Yes the person with the gun died. you dont have the skill.</p>
<p>i think we are veering off topic...</p>
<p>why are there less fist fights in college than in high school?</p>
<p>I don't notice any less, there are always at least 5 or more at any party I go to. In HS there weren't to many, usually just girls fighting but that was pilling hair. I don't notice any difference</p>
<p>yeah people who say stuff like, "it's not civilized to fight" probably haven't ever been through anything. they hear some worn out cliche like "just walk away" and blindly adopt it. but there is no life in those words just some mantra they robotically say out. so their stance mean nothing to me. their virtue is lifeless.</p>
<p>Yeah just keep getting into fistfights... Then when someone pulls a gun on you, you can feel like a real man.</p>
<p>well, circuit, if the apocalypse happens in the near future, you'll be just fine.</p>
<p>Circuit- "as for the gun, LOL Ive got much bigger than that my friend. Like you would even be trained to use such a weapon."</p>
<p>are you trying to make yourself sound immature?</p>
<p>circuit i see where ur comin from dude but outside of an urban environment, that attitude is only going to get ur ass in trouble. if you walk around a suburban environment kickin ass and takin names, you're gonna get in a ****load more trouble than you probably would in an urban environment. also, while i respect the fact htat you got into college though ur friends didn't despite your environment, you are an anomaly in that sense. most kids who had your childhood ARE your friends that are out on the corner, with or without the influence of the parents. If you want to treat ur kids like how ur parents did , that's fine (i guess) in an urban environment, but u don't know where ur gonna land up when ur older, and that urban mentality may not work wherever u end up</p>
<p>"But if my mother and brother and grandparents needed food, Id be more than willing to kill or severely injure anybody who had what I needed."</p>
<p>Is anybody else disturbed by this? This mentality is the reason why there was so much disorder within Lousiana. If everyone had banded together rather than individually defending themselves, I'm sure the situation would have been much better. To be able to achieve this, someone needs leadership skills...not fighting ability. </p>
<p>So if some small kid had a candy bar in his hand...youd kill him for it?? </p>
<p>Also, when your body gradually starts to age, what will you have to show for it? Your body will lose its strength, but the mind takes much longer to wilt.</p>
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<p>Oh I'm sorry - I didn't realize that you know everything about me. Your virtual p**** is bigger than mine. Well I hope you feel "manly" about that at least.... </p>
<p>Good lord. Unbelievable ignorance. Once you get a bit older and you've passed puberty, let me know if you still think you know everything and that fighting ability is everything in this world.</p>
<p> and my apologies for dragging the thread even further off course - I'm just a bit allergic to bull****.</p>
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<p>Yeah, as well you should be. But there is solace in the fact that people who hold such views tend to spend quite a bit of time behind bars.</p>
<p>Icarus: What city did you live in for 4 years and how old were you?</p>
<p>christalena2: I don't know what's so disturbing about survival of the fittest. That's how the world essentially operates.</p>
<p>Los Angeles (where I currently live).... and I'm 22</p>
<p>christalena2 nice utopia you mentioned there, a situation where there is not enough supples for even close to half the number of people and you really expect people to band together. That is a foolish assumption, and you with that mentality would be the one whom family's starved to death. Survival of the Fittest is what i think the term is called, It means I'm more fit than you, so even if you have I will take and overpower you. This is by far one of the most fundamental parts of nature. you are forgetting, that we are still animals. Id like fort you to do some research on human history when there has been severe famine or in nature when there is a severe drought. you have been so spoiled that you have lost grasp of what reality really is. you have never had to fend for yourself, and thats really sad. Keep up your mentality and see who helps you, either you do things yourself or you die.</p>
<p>Hell yeah, If My mother or another family was starving, id take that kids candy bar and do what I needed to get it. I think you are missing the point as you are probably a spoiled, but in my world, I am better than everybody else, if you aren't in my family then you are worthless to me. I know for a fact that if my family needed food, Id have no hard killing somebody else. I wouldn't feel any regret, same way animals in nature do during drought.</p>
<p>Icarus, My e-penor is bigger than yours. people who hold my views, are the ones who tend to survive. those who have your views tend to be left either dead or eating paper. nerd. and where in LA, thers a big difference in urban life, vs rich urban life. </p>
<p>Imran, its not something im worried about, you say I would get in trouble, but by who, the police lol please. The kids who didn't go to college and got all messed up, weren't raised the same as me. They were brought up much more protected and sheltered. same as my roommate, the guy has absolutely no common sense, he wants to be a doctor and has been sheltered and protected his entire life, he has been handed everything, Guess what hes a ****ing junkie. I guess the suburban, sheltered parenting where they teach kids to talk and not fight really works. Look at some statistics and see who is truly more successful, those with a survival instinct from urban areas, or those who are protected in suburban areas. The majority of the most successful people come from nothing.</p>
<p>In this world that you guys speak of were people talk instead of fight, were really existent then there would be no problems and there wouldn't be wars. We have some of the best minds and smartest people in the world here in America. We also pretty much have the majority of the money, why cant we just speak kindly to other nations, during the world wars,. why couldn't we talk it out. Its foolish to even think that such a thing is possible. </p>
<p>you guys are probably the same people who would dodge a draft. sad people.</p>
<p>circuit you're not going to convince any of these pampered rich kids. just take pride in the fact that we can succeed both in "their" sheltered dream world and we can kick their a** in the real world. It's a win-win.</p>
<p>I think your right</p>
<p>LOL to this thread.</p>
<p>christalena2, you're not in a fantasy world. </p>
<p>One advice for u: Don't expect others to help you if you're in deep ****, coz they won't.
If your too nice, people will take advantage of you.</p>
<p>circuit most people who have made it in this world came from a suburban background. Yes, there were people who went from rags to riches, but they are few and far between. Whether you like it or not, surviving in today's world requries more than having big guns. If you work in a competitive business setting, you can't go jack ur boss or coworker if he makes fun of you or call you out, that's just not how it works. And just because you are raised in a suburban setting doesn't mean that you're more protected, you just don't have such a jaded view society and you're not as pessimistic (as your posts wreak of). My dad was born and raised up in the largest metropolitan area in India and he had to live on the streets pretty much and like you he beat the odds and he went to the most prestigious engineering school in India. He's the kind of guy you'd get along with prefectly. But he has such a dark view of humanity and is so ridiculously pessimistic that it's just jarring for most people. Ur living in LA, so ur idea of a suburban setting is probably far more unreal than the suburban settings most people live in, so hasty generalizations aren't gonna work. </p>
<p>and ur candy bar analogy does nothing for your claim about the benefits of having lived in an urban setting; iv'e lived in midwest suburbia for most of my life and i'd do the same things for my family that you would.</p>
<p>Whatever. I grew up in Miami (the poverty stricken non glamorous area) and it was generally true that those who faught were more likely to fail at life/drop out/be jailed than go to college, so I imagine those violent types just don't go off to college. I've been in tons of fights living here but that pretty much stopped when I decided to not associate myself with that lifestyle and make something of myself.</p>
<p>circuit and kamcsnerd be honest now, both of you are plain pussies in the real "urban" world. I'm from bronx new york too and I know what you're describing and probably worse, heck, nobody ever went to college from Evander childs high school (you should know where that is, you'd get your ass beat there). But then, none of those kids would EVER go on a website called College Confidential.com. yea, and yet you're here, so quit frontn`</p>
<p>If you still think fighting is the way to solve problems, then it's clear you nor your family will ever climb out of poverty. Seriously, how can you take pride in something like "roughin it in the urban world," and "kicking nerdy asses in the real world?" Let me ask you, does Donald Trump or Bill Gates grow up fist fighting? No. Are you ever going to be able to kick their asses? No. Do they or others like them even care about your poverty stricken family? No.</p>
<p>And the retard who mentioned that "physical superiority" is "survival of the fittest," do you realize that that's how the world operated may be 10,000 years ago? Do you realize that today the word "fittest" refers more to fittest of the mind rather than body? How do you explain statured, weakly short men living in luxury mansions while big, muscular, burly men come in to clean their toilets?
My advice to you is just accept the fact that fighting is no longer the answer in a civilized world. It's time for you to climb out of poverty so your kids have a chance to live a better life.</p>