Quote: (11-17-2017 08:43 PM)Veloce Wrote:
When you're out in public, especially in a place like the NYC subway system, do you go around accosting people or otherwise starting shit by telling them what they should or shouldn't do?
Because I don't. I don't care if someone is laying down taking 5 seats. You don't know who the fuck people are, what's going on in their head, whether or not their best friend just committed suicide or if their mom has 3 days to live on life support. You don't know any of these things and for that reason you shouldn't fuck with strangers unless you have a REALLY good reason to.
Of course women still get white knights like the dude in the video, "You hit a woman!" to come to her rescue, so they don't understand these things. Women fuck with strangers all the time and they don't learn their lesson. Guys have a deeper understanding that fucking with the wrong person can have catastrophic results. Women want equality? Then they can internalize this basic principal that most men already know. Don't fuck with strangers.
I don't understand how there is even an alternative to this approach for anyone of any status or success. In such a position you *always* have more to lose than the other guy, so pick your battles intelligently. Personally, I avoid any conflict which might result in a physical altercation unless we're talking life or death. Not over a fucking seat.
A story. An engineering co-worker told me about getting cut off while driving one day. Horns went back and forth, then fingers, then in car posturing, then at the next stop light more, guy who cut off my coworker gets out of car and comes over, more posturing, so my coworker also gets out and strikes first, fights, he says he kicked his ass. Now, because one guy is in the street bleeding, and they're holding up traffic, police get involved. They both go down to station, turns out bleeding guy's brother is a cop. He spends thousands on lawyers, a couple weeks of time and stress, and the whole thing gets dropped.
He told me this story as a bit of a humble-brag about how no one fucks with him and he doesn't back down. I was thinking the whole time about what a fucking retard he was. Because you're too childish to brush off some minor traffic hiccup and refuse about a half of dozen opportunities to disengage this poor fool in a shitty car, you risked a manslaughter charge, criminal record, your professional engineering license and livelihood, the ability to travel internationally, and the absolute best case (which played out) involved weeks of time and stress, getting punched, and thousands of dollars. But yeah it's worth it because you showed that you don't let trashy people in $300 cars cut you off.
I just can't get my head around the fact that people can't look 30s into the future at a few potential outcomes, and how every one is worse than just letting some things slide.