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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I think you`re mostly right - but it`s not a good thing to romanticize them either. In the end, they do generally have their hands deep into crime. I don`t really think that people should be as terrified of them as individuals, but I also certainly don`t think people should be welcoming of them by any stretch.
I think there is a big difference between the real gangsters and the wannabe misguided kids (like the ones who took me home). I never approved of my friend dating one, and in the end he did screw her over (or rather, he tried to "lend" her to some of his friends while drunk, and those friends tried to get her drugged up as to not fight with them... And was completely stunned that she broke up with him because of it.) It seems like there is a decent person there with a whole different moral structure there under the surface with completely different ideas of what is acceptable and what is not.
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No, I completely agree. I was of the same opinion when the girl in the club wanted to go back there specifically just on the grounds that her 'hero' might be there again. The juvenile delinquents might be just as bad, but at least they didn't decide to try and make a career out of it. Half of them at least have just fallen into it for arbitrary psychological reasons.
It's the whole gremlins thing to me. They might look harmless, and indeed be harmless half the time, but I can just imagine what they're like after midnight, and I don't like the thought of that one bit.