[Salvanas]

Originally Posted by Sangetsu

Gangsters become gangsters because they too have few options in life, due to upbringing or lack of education. Since they don't have the education or training to be productive members of society, they make their living doing scams, running drugs and prostitutes, or loan-sharking. The only people who respect gangsters are other gangsters, because they are too narrow to appreciate anything outside their own very limited world.

I would just like to point out a few things Sangetsu.

Your view has it's points, but it has a flaw. You're claiming that people become gangsters because of no other alternative in their life. This is incorrect. Becoming a gangster takes ambition. It also takes many more things, but it's mainly driven by ambition.

A successful Gangster can easily be a rich and powerful man. It also, to some, may seem like an eventful and dangerous lifestyle. Which it is. But the main reason people pursue the gangster lifestyle, is because of the easy access to money. I mean, it's harder to earn money, than by acquiring it by immoral means. This can be so for the educated, and for the non-educated. Education does not get rid of greed.

As for aiming for specific jobs and the like, I know a person who's aim is to become a bricklayer. Why? Because he enjoys it.

It's a low paying job, and I can see in your eyes it's a job that should not be aimed for. But some people don't seek to be ambitious in life. Some people aim for their own comfort.

It's wrong to make judgements about someone's goals, or personal preferences in life.