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PhantomOps, you must have lived a sheltered life...This is your experience with people? ...If this were true, we would get along. Since that is not the case, it's time for you to go back to the drawing board with your Pollyanna assumptions. |
Let's see - sheltered?? - I was raised on 83rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan until the age of 15 when my parents moved to Astoria, Queens.
Manhattan first - we had 4 gangs at the time who were fighting turf wars and God help anyone who got in the way. Personally, I lost count of how many fights I had because I didn't do the gang-thing. The area was a mix of Italians, Irish, Germans and Puerto Ricans.
Queens: a little more spread out, but there were 3 gangs acting the same way as in Manhattan, I again lost count of the fights.
However, when I wasn't defending myself I tried to the best I could to do what my parents had taught me - those stated in my original post.
Pollyanna assumptions?? No in-as-much as this has never, is or will be a perfect world. Were you raised any differently?[/b][/quote]How does your experience with gangs inform the statements you began this thread with? Specifically: "IMHO we are all basically raised:
1) to respect others who are older
2) to respect the rights of others" etc.? "We" being the gangsters, or were you referring only to us denizens of volconvo(a bunch of intellectual netgeeks)?