No. No you don’t you don’t have to fight and I know people that never got into a fight, but there is a 99% chance if you never get into a fight, it is because you were willing to accept things that other people weren’t.
Will you be disrespected? Will you have somebody try you? Will a booty bandit run down on you?
It might not be as serious as that, but you will be disrespected. You will be tried at some point in time. There will be something that happens where in the pit of your stomach and the back of your mind, when it happens it’s gonna catch you off guard.
You might not be sure how to approach it, but if you don’t say anything or do anything you’re gonna wish you approached it.
Especially when somebody in your circle comes up to you and says something about it:
‘Hey bro, how come he bumped into you and you didn’t say anything. Like, hey you can’t say excuse me or something? How come you were just quiet about it."
Things like that make an impression. These impressions can have a lasting effect on your prison bid.
Everything is about respect.
People want to try people to see who is violent.
If you’re willing to just break it off and be extorted the second you get inside of a prison and you know physically you’re not going to be able to do nothing, you may have an easy ride, physically.
Mentally you’re going to be bullied and disrespected on a daily basis.
Extortion doesn’t mean people aren’t gonna treat you like a bitch. Extortion doesn’t mean if your mom didn’t send money because she just didn’t get a good check you’re not gonna get slapped the fuck up by whoever’s extorting you, even though it wasn’t your fault.
Extortion doesn’t mean a sexual predator won’t want to extort you for something other than food. So at that point, are you willing to fight for your manhood? If you’re not, you may be turned out and this happens to people inside of prison that aren’t willing to become physically violent.
The danger in not fighting and not standing up for yourself can be more dangerous than the actual fight.
You have people in prison that are just preying on people. They want to show how tough and how savage they are. They want other people to see it, if they know that they can make an example out of you. And other people are going to watch what they do.
They might start something. They might bump into you and say you bumped into them and now they’re calling you out,
‘Hey bruh, say excuse me bruh’
You’re caught off guard, because you didn’t even do anything, but you’re a pacifist, you’re just a peaceful person you don’t want no problems. It’s not that big of a deal, you don’t have these pride issues or insecurities, so you’re like ‘oh my bad, excuse me.’
You throw it off again, you apologize. You thought you did what was right.
This person doesn’t want to hear it, now you’re getting hit in your face. Now your adrenaline is starting to kick in.
What are you going to do? Are you going to start throwing them hands back or are you just going to accept what happens?
This person is going to take full advantage. They’re probably going to keep attacking and you’re so caught off guard by everything that’s going on you may not even fight back just because you don’t know what the fuck is happening.
This may be your first physical altercation.
This may be a gang member and you don’t want to swing back because you don’t know what else can happen, so you ball up you and take the little ass whooping.
He gets his little respect, he thinks he’s cool, he’s badass. Other people are viewing him, seeing that he’ll put hands on somebody.
That doesn’t mean that this isn’t gonna stop.
Somebody else might run down on you after seeing what just happened and try to extort you, because they saw that you didn’t fight back.
In prison you’re dealing with people that are trying to mentally callous themselves. They are trying to build a wall, brick by brick, where their emotions are no longer inside of their mind. Where they’re becoming cold-hearted killers without actually killing.
Some of the hardest things witnessing inside of prison is watching somebody in an open bay dorm be stomped relentlessly. Having someone jump off the top bunk onto their headm, seeing them seizing, seeing the blood coming out of their mouth, coming out of their nose. Seeing somebody get poked up. The tightening of their face and muscles. You can see the pain.
Some of them would cry. Some of them would break down crying. Some of them would start screaming for their parents. But the person that’s doing it, is doing it, because he knows you’re defenseless.
He knows you’re easy and he’s poking you up and cutting you, because he’s trying to desensitize himself, so that when war comes, when he goes at it with somebody that’s on that level, he is prepared to handle it on that level.
He’s gonna take this out on you being defenseless, before he graduates to beefing with people that are on that cold-hearted level.
In the process of what he is trying to do, it can cause you to lose your life. It can cause you to have permanent injury. It can cause you to be traumatized because of the fact that everyone knew you were defenseless. You were helpless, you didn’t have the heart to fight.
Do you have to fight in prison? No you don’t you don’t have to, but what can come from not fighting in prison can be so much worse than the fight itself.
The best way to handle things if you have to fight or if you feel like something is coming is to confront it. You have to confront it before it builds into something else. It’s almost like an avalanche. It starts off with a snowball and before you know it, the whole fucking mountain is coming down.
Before that snowball starts building and building and building and getting bigger as it rolls down the mountain, confront it and stop it head-on.
"Look i don’t have a problem with you, but if we need to fight to get this over with i’m perfectly fine with that. I’m not on all that knife play shit. I want to go home, I got shit going on inside of the dorm, if we need to handle that, let’s handle that like that. If not, i’m good.
That isn’t going to work out in every case. It depends on the mentality of the person that you’re getting into it with, but the other people inside of the dorm will see that you’re really sticking up for yourself.
– Jake
