I really think that taking inner city boys and making them do a year of forestry work with some grizzled ass former staff SGT would do wonders for males with no male role model at home

nah

have them work with adult mentally disabled people

or help in the hospital (which is what i did)

If their lives give them the empathy to do so, then sure

But the chunk without empathy are the ones who need the dog eat dog hierarchy of military service to shape them

believe me... holding the hand of someone while they are dying is gonna teach them empathy.

big reason why I am the only dude from my high school friend group that is not in prision

the people you are talking about were the ones that had no chance of getting around the military service if they got "drafted"

I consider myself a sociopath that was socialized by court order through the military.

you had to convince the military that your convictions do not allow you to participate in wars and/or to shoot a gun

So you had to admit to being a pussy

ouch

i'm still a sociopath mostly...

that had to hurt in the man feelz

not really, no 😄

really? Like one of the primary drives to force yourself to fight is constant awareness of your position in the hierarchy of badass

From national guard to special forces, everyone knew their position and jostled for progression constantly

Most of the desire to do battle was derived from that desire to climb the hierachy

i don't give a shit what other people think of me... i know what i can do, i know what i can't do and i know what i want to do

That was my original position, since...sociopath.

if i want to do something i do it and work to be the best i can be at it... if i don't want to do something... i don't 😄

I came to the realization that my survival was linked to my ability to mimic my Joe's motivations and leverage that to convince them to fight effectivly

and raise my odds of surviving Mosul

I was complete sociopathic maniuplation that made me feel shitty

but i done did it anyway

i came to the realization that i don't want to fight in a war... so i didn't 😄

I got caught selling stolen cars

which I DID NOT STEAL

or technically know were stolen

fucking bullshit

okay... i never had problems with the law... well... i never got cought doing something i'm not allowed to do

how do you sell cars without knowing that they were stolen?

Your buddy in a mexican street gang steals cars, drives them to mexico and gets them retitled there

his cousin then drives them to us, we pay 50 cents on the dollar and sell for 75

got to pay for college some how

yeah... okay... we did not have mexican street gangs... only antifa and other idiots 😄

oh, you live in one of the non shit states

aaaaand we don't have to pay for college

i live in germany 😉

Fuck