i feel it somewhat odd that you can uphold the dichotomy of simultaneously saying, "the world be damned" and have a child. you have a child, and i think if you chose parenthood, you would at least have some good wishes for your child, that he can grow up in a better environment than you have, that he can accomplish more than you have. why do you want to leave a world to your child where he constantly has to watch his back? why don't you want to leave your child a better place to live than the world was when you found it? i think it's the inherent wish of all parents to do so, and to that end, we must cooperate with society, society is only receptive to change from within than from without.
again you're mincing words with me, my question is really why you participate in organized society anyway? why do you map? cuz it's fun, and it lets other epeople see your work, it gives you a sense of accomplishment, all those things come from society, if not for the fact taht there are ears to hear you and eyes to see your work, why would you map or even speak? speech is useless when there are nobody to listen. i know why i'm here, because i know that there are people who listen and read, and communicate within the bounds of society and civility. if you feel yoruself entirely unbound by those things, then there is no real reason for you to do any of the things you do. think about it.
moreover, attacks by a few teens on one person is vastly different from attacks from a mob of people, or an organized government, how many rapes/murders do you suspect exist every year compared to the number of people killed by mobs or governments? ten thousand? a hundred thousand? a million? you compare that to what's going on every day in africa, in east timor, in the middle east, you think that's a large number? you're saying "well in tihs specific case when tehre are 3 people or less, in a mediumj to small frame and you are well built, and such and such conditions, you should fight back." can you possibly imagine how few situations in life are actually like that? and how many women honestly you think, don't fight back against a rapist? the number is so small it warrants no discussion. and i really dont' think it's right to marginalize suffering to say that well if they don't fight back they deserve it.
take another example. if i wanted to live "outside the social norm" by putting babies on spikes. should i be able to do that? should i be allowed to impale babies on spikes? sure it's sick, but hey, i'm outside the societal norm, i'm standing over here away from society. i don't have to operate by society's rules you know. of course in taht situation someone's going to come in and stop me, why the hell not? putting babies on spikes is not a tolerable act, we live in society, we share society's land and resources, when we buy a pair of shoes, it wasn't made by us, it was made by the shoemaker, who through a system of trade, and routing networks, infrastructure and systems of ownership made possible BY SOCIETY, only through this vast network of unseen routine actions coordinated BY SOCIETY are we able to obtain a pair of shoes. and as such, the "tax" we have to pay is that we obey society's rules to be a part of it, which include a rule against putting babies on spikes.
think about how often you patronize tihs society. you buy milk, you buy shoes, buy baby products, diapers... every time you buy those things, you are patronizing society, utilizing the social network that puts the products in your supermarket, you're buying into consumerism, you are utilizing hte resources of the world. you are not makign your own diapers or shoes or milk, you are not even going to drive down to the factories where each of those items are made and picking them up, you are buying it from a centralized, localized depository, shipped on an infrastructure, roads, rails, planes, made possible, not by your own hands, but by society. if you think you can simply live detached from society, you'd have to give up more than you think, and certainly more than you want. if you're not ready to start building your own cars from scratch, making your own steel, molding your own pistons, you will continue to patronize society. you have the right to question that society's policies, as i have, but you have no right to criticize the existence of that society. you can question specific actions, but still you must appreciate the underlying structure that society has provided for you and you so regularly employ to your advantage. to do otherwise cannot be justified.
furthermore, its really an act of leeching on society when you wan to continually patronize it while constantly bitching about the fact that it exists. you want to use it for the good and bash it. it's irresponsible. do you just walk out on your wife when you have a fight? no, you sit down and work it out, especially when you have a child. why is it different from society? do you just f*ck her and leave her? use her for the time being and then when it's inconvenient, jsut walk away? no, i dont' think so, if you do, then you're foolish AND irresponsible.
but i will agree with you on one thing, that you are indeed a product of this society, and it is good that people like you exist, because it reflects that the society is healthy, when ideas are not homogenous, and people are allowed to share them, njo matter how stupid they may seem to one party or another. that is a fundamental principle i will not question.
