"I didn't choose the thug life,the thug life chose."

"I didn't choose the thug life,the thug life chose me."

Do you agree or disagree with that statement.

Who said this? it was Simon Cowell right?

I dissagree, but at the same time agree...

Explaination: People choose to start as a thug because sometime there is no choice, they feel that they need to do it so they can survive on the society, and once you are in, is kinda diffucult to get out of it.

No and neither is the opposite true. Both are too absolute.

I believe that people make their own choices. That being said, I'm not going to walk around claiming to be a better person than someone who grew up on the streets or in the projects and fell into that life. If I was in the same position, I probably would have ende up the same way.

I disagree. There are always choices, some people just make the wrong ones.

I pity kids who fall into this lifestyle, but I can't defend their actions based on pity.

I agree. If you lived somewhere like Queens, Brookyln, Oakland, Baltimore, Detroit, etc. growing up its ussually hang with us, get cut, or stay the f*ck away. Trying to stay away while going to school and riding the bus with people in the "thug life" around you is pretty difficult.

Can a lifestyle choose you? It requires a bit of personification to think that you're some how not responsible for your own actions. Although, I could... kind of understand how an analogous situation using religion could come of as a lifestyle choosing someone. I guess the lines of socialization aren't as absolute as the OP suggests.

@The Stegman: Winston Churchill

You always have a choice.

You can't always choose. And soon reality will hit you pretty hard to remind you that.

There's always a choice.

BB

thug life.... lol.

'Thugs' aren't half as bad as 'civilized people'....

@Blood1991 said:

I disagree. There are always choices, some people just make the wrong ones.

I pity kids who fall into this lifestyle, but I can't defend their actions based on pity.

perfectly said

@YoungJustice said:

I agree. If you lived somewhere like Queens, Brookyln, Oakland, Baltimore, Detroit, etc. growing up its ussually hang with us, get cut, or stay the f*ck away. Trying to stay away while going to school and riding the bus with people in the "thug life" around you is pretty difficult.

i agree. difficult but not impossible. always options. and always a few people trying to do the right thing

@NlGHTCRAWLER said:

You always have a choice.

No doubt

@CaioTrubat said:

You can't always choose. And soon reality will hit you pretty hard to remind you that.

can you give a couple examples of when you can't choose?

what fairytell did this cone from?

@buttersdaman000: Lol

@moywar700 said:

"I didn't choose the thug life,the thug life chose me."

Do you agree or disagree with that statement.

I agree in some cases. Expecting a child who is growing up with these "thugs" in the ghettos and projects not to feel like an outcast and fall into the same behavior might be asking a lot.

Although with good parenting a child can overcome the situation. Although many are not that fortunate to have this.

you know you says that? either people that are complacent with their life and try to offer some justification as to why their life is like that or whinny people that want better but dont want to work for it. both cases GTFO.

I didn't choose the vigilante life. the vigilante life chose me ~ Batman

This is a Tupac Quote and is perfectly understandable with context. You don't choose who your parents, neighbors and classmates are. You don't choose how you grow up. With the case of Tupac he grew up in the ghetto and raised by Black Panthers, his disposition was honed from a young age to despise what can be considered abuse of authority (namely POLICE). Thug in this sense of the word doesn't translate into gangster but more into nonconformist and social outcast. If yo listen to 2Pac's music you would know that when he says Thug he means more of "one who will buck society for social injustice" as opposed to gangster. But he can definitely do gangster too.

"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for'"

~Tupac

@pooty: They are a lot more common than you imagine. You see, the slums are controlled by drug-dealing cartels and those born into poverty have no choice but to work for them in order to feed their loved ones or just survive. Check out "The Elite Squad" through the movie is told from the police officers' POV that movie shows how bad the situation is.

@SpideyPresence said:

@moywar700 said:

"I didn't choose the thug life,the thug life chose me."

Do you agree or disagree with that statement.

I agree in some cases. Expecting a child who is growing up with these "thugs" in the ghettos and projects not to feel like an outcast and fall into the same behavior might be asking a lot.

Although with good parenting a child can overcome the situation. Although many are not that fortunate to have this.

That's true. Circumstance really comes into play here. If you are born into a world where a lifestyle is prevalent, you don't have opportunities to get away from that lifestyle and you don't realize that there is even more then that lifestyle... the chances are pretty high that you will embrace this lifestyle. I've seen people come up from nothing but I've also seen people who simply can't break away from things like this.

And you're right. A lot of the time parents are not around or simply don't know anything else then the lifestyle they were raised to.

This statement can be true in many ways, not just about thug life. You are born into life with no choice of where, why, when, how or to who. Those factors define how you will grow up and what life you will have at first. Things do change though.

Disagree.

@texasdeathmatch said:

real thug right there

@Night Thrasher said:

This is a Tupac Quote and is perfectly understandable with context. You don't choose who your parents, neighbors and classmates are. You don't choose how you grow up. With the case of Tupac he grew up in the ghetto and raised by Black Panthers, his disposition was honed from a young age to despise what can be considered abuse of authority (namely POLICE). Thug in this sense of the word doesn't translate into gangster but more into nonconformist and social outcast. If yo listen to 2Pac's music you would know that when he says Thug he means more of "one who will buck society for social injustice" as opposed to gangster. But he can definitely do gangster too.

"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for'"

~Tupac

:)

@texasdeathmatch said:

Lol ! Thug-pug!

Thugs aren't made. Thugs are born.