Old Dogs
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IMDB rating: 5.10 Plot: Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor — have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins, leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life. |
Actors: Alpert Sherman,Alva William,Astoyan Chris,Aubin Kevin,Castillo Oscar J.,Cullen Chris,Davis DeRay,Davis Kent,Dean-Hackett Kevin,Dillon Matt,Douglas Connor,Enright Michael,Gere David,Green Seth,Harp Jet,Comedy,Crime,Drama,
Might a real wuss-type of guy be better able to take care of himself in a post-nuclear war world, than today?
Imagine a guy who is either a real weenie who can’t go toe-to-toe to save his life; a fat
uncoordinated nerd with no athletic ability; or an old man with no friends. Imagine these guys in a nasty gang-infested neighborhood and for whatever reason, they can’t get out of that
environment…
In today’s world, this type of guy will either be picked on, perhaps murdered "just for
kicks" OR he’ll use a weapon to defend himself from the bullies – resulting in him going to prison where he’ll likely end up somebody’s bee-yotch (he’ll REALLY be a little fish in a lake of sharks then. He’ll be unarmed in a world full of the worst degenerates society has to offer!)
Why? Because the only way of fighting which would put him on equal footing with the
bullies (a gun) is a sure ticket to prison, in a "civilized" law-based society! The state empowers his
tormentors even further than nature does.
But after a nuclear war, there would be no laws, no state, and no prisons to be sent to! I also suspect that most fights would be settled with guns, when they were available (I’m thinking
mainly about America here – 200 million guns and I’m sure the survivors would find all the guns and ammo they needed after the missiles stopped flying.)
At that point, it seems to me that our wimpy friend would be in a much better position
to deal with the bullies, predators ect.; after all, a gun works just as well for a wuss as it does for a tough guy, and will kill a tough guy just as easily as anyone else. And nobody wants to get shot (especially in a world with no hospitals.) Also, armed wimps/weak men would likely band together, becoming basically as formidable as the tough-guy gangs at that point. There would be a
balance of power which didn’t exist before.
Could it be, that the tough, bullying "alpha-dog" type of guys actually thrive best in a civilized, law-governed, state-based stable society with things like gun control (or other laws which punish armed self-defense), medical technology, ect. but the wimpy guys would do better if the world went all to hell and civilization collapsed? That bullies do best when PROTECTED? Ironic but true, so it seems to me…
There are so many things to be accounted for if a nuclear holocaust were to happen. It’s basically your survival skills…If such a situation were to occur, there would be no law, and no rule as you said. Gangs would still roam around, killing innocent travelers, no different then a situation u were talking about before a nuclear holocaust. and it would come down to your ability to defend yourself. Then after that, it would depend on your scavenging skills, you need clean food and water to survive. You need to not only be strong, but smart and logical.
So to answer your question, I don’t think a scrawny person who can’t fight, can adequatly survive a nuclear holocaust. You need smarts and you need brawn.
Keyboard Warrior | Feb 02, 2010