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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Do you realize how arrogant this sounds? The only reason you've not a victim of violent crime or personal theft (yet) is that "you don't put yourself in situations that require defense" ? Is someone who has no choice but to live in a dangerous area bringing the violence on themselves? Is someone who prepares for the rational eventuality that they'll be the victim of violent crime "living in fear"?
With 3,672,940 VIOLENT crimes committed against US citizens in 2006, there is more to it than simply not putting yourself in situations that "require defense." It's a statistical factor of your socioeconomic status, your neighborhood and luck, not willful decisions on your part. Victims don't choose to be victims. You're not "living in fear", but you're certainly "willfully ignorant."
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Jinn ... I have been the victim of violent crime. I've been used as an initiation rite for a gang. I've been attacked by frat boys out for a good time because I look "different."
You'll notice that I only answered your question from my perspective ... yet you use it to attack me.
Do you know my socioeconomic status? You realize that Memphis fluctuates between #1 and #8 for violent crime and murder (depending on who's bullshit statistics you read at any given time)? I live in Memphis and ride a bike through several depressed and dilapidated neighborhoods almost daily. Projects that most people don't even see when they drive by because they are too busy locking their doors and rolling up their windows.
The problem I have with a lot of the questions that you ask is that when someone chooses to answer them you simply jump all over the responder using YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE but you don't allow room for ANYONE ELSE'S PERSPECTIVE. This is not to say that your questions aren't valid.
I am 39-years-old ... I have spent a good part of my life living in crappy, cockroach infested shacks. That's not the case now. I have a completely different perspective on life now than I did 15 years ago. I don't put much stock in statistics no matter what numbers you throw out.
As for arrogance ... why don't you turn that judgemental eye inward for a while and see what you can find out about yourself? I don't need a lecture from someone who is asking MY OPINION.