Why is there no option for "train to fight, then turn my newly-acquired fighting skills against my kidnappers, most likely with the aid of my fellow gladiators, who, like me, have almost nothing to lose"?

I added another option, does that fit?

I haven't read the Hunger Games, but I decided that I would simply try to survive.

Cool! Glad to help.

I'm torn, I don't feel like trying to kill anyone would be the right thing to do (unless I knew they were behind all of it), and surviving, I would have to get by everything after the games...I'd probably pray for the rapture or something.

Pray to God, but row to shore. Your kidnappers, by definition, are not innocent. It is sinful to value them above your fellow gladiators, and foolish to value them above yourself. Moreover, the premise of the story is that this happens every year, and God didn't rapture your predecessors. Why are you so special?

I didn't say it'd be rational to do that or anything...I didn't say I'd do anything rational at all in fact.

Trying to kill people, innocent or not would be a pointless thing to do from what I've gathered reading the book...that dome thing is a virtual world that is controlled from the outside anyone trying to attack someone like that would probably disintegrate before they started to move.

Besides, when would you do this?

Who do you refer to as your kidnappers?

I agree it'd be a good way to go, I guess, assuming that the people we're talking about aren't simply trying to provide for their own family (a cowardly way to do it, but suppose their family would be killed if they refused to do their job?),

then it would get you killed, and possibly make those in Panem value security more in the future.

I agree it'd be a good way to go, I guess, assuming that the people we're talking about aren't simply trying to provide for their own family (a cowardly way to do it, but suppose their family would be killed if they refused to do their job?),

What good is it to make a plan (even a hypothetical one) if you're going to plan on behaving irrationally?

What is your answer?
Your post sounds reasonable, I have one thing to say (that I can think of right now), and it's just something about the games' purpose: The Hunger Games are (I think,) a terror tool turned sport-originally designed to shock and scare people into submission, and embraced by many as a sport.

Anyway, the main reason I don't think I'd fight back is because I can't think or (or, maybe remember) a decent time to try...kill the judges when you show off your skills?...kill who? In most cases, trying to kill anyone other than another contestant would be suicide, like disobeying someone with a machine gun trained on you (which, of course, I believe I'd do in some circumstances, and I know God can make things happen that seem impossible or, in this case, unlikely).

So, the bottom line is, I'd probably not fight back unless I felt God specifically lead me to it,

because I can see no way that fighting back would be beneficial to anyone but myself (because I'd die)...the person to do that might be killing their own family in the process anyway.

I didn't say I'd do something irrational either.

What is your answer?

Your post sounds reasonable, I have one thing to say (that I can think of right now), and it's just something about the games' purpose: The Hunger Games are (I think,) a terror tool turned sport-originally designed to shock and scare people into submission, and embraced by many as a sport.

Anyway, the main reason I don't think I'd fight back is because I can't think or (or, maybe remember) a decent time to try...kill the judges when you show off your skills?...kill who?

In most cases, trying to kill anyone other than another contestant would be suicide, like disobeying someone with a machine gun trained on you (which, of course, I believe I'd do in some circumstances, and I know God can make things happen that seem impossible or, in this case, unlikely).

So, the bottom line is, I'd probably not fight back unless I felt God specifically lead me to it, because I can see no way that fighting back would be beneficial to anyone but myself (because I'd die)...the person to do that might be killing their own family in the process anyway.

I would examine the circumstances as best I could and determine the best time to strike. I don't claim that my chance of success (defined here as "surviving and ending the Hunger Games") would be high. But I don't see that my other options are preferable, and I would rather die fighting the bad guys than murdering their victims.

What does that mean? "I feel God specifically leading me to do X." I don't see how any option besides fighting or running away is either ethical or wise, and running away sounds likely to lead to an ignominious death, whereas fighting leads to a heroic death. Warm feelings in my stomach don't trump ethical rules or logical thinking. If fighting is the right thing to do, then God is leading you to do it in the only sense that matters, and vice versa.

I don't follow. The person to do what might be killing his own family?

If you are not acting rationally, you are by definition acting irrationally. Unless you're unconscious.

Yes, I agree. That doesn’t change my choice, though.

You kill those who attack you. I'm not talking about starting a revolt. I'm talking about making a stand for what is true and right. If contestants refuse to fight then they can all make a stand together. If the fight moderators come in and try to kill you, you fight for one another.

I have a question of my own. If a man has a machine gun trained on you, and tell you to deny Christ, would you deny Him in order to survive? I see no difference. I would not (God help me) do what is wrong in order to prolong my life. We are called to be accountable to God first.

I feel that God does call us to fight for the innocent, which mean I would fight for any other contestant who chose to stand against the atrocities and not be subjected to the evolutionary agenda.

But killing could oh so easily turn me into a monster, as it did lots of other tributes. I'd rather die a human then live a monster. Plus, 'To live is Christ, and to die is gain.'

The tricky bit comes in with the question, "Is that exactly suicide?"

Some would say that if you're going to die anyway, then simply choosing a different form of death isn't suicide...

That's a topic for another thread though.

Maybe it would be more heroic to sit and refuse to play their games. But no one remembers the legacy of the first-dead. And isn't that essentially suicide? I'd try to make a lasting image on them, just so they would know what I stood for. Fight to defend myself and those close to me, and share the Gospel when I could.

Woe betide my foes in those games.
I have a simple strategy.
Run out as soon as the time begins. Sneak back later and plunder the place.
In the meantime and ever after, sing this song: My Strategic Song
Ideally, you use this strategy in tandem with having allied with someone with a range weapon. Basically, I would act as bait and lure in other tributes by being so annoying that they can't stand leaving me alive. As soon as they try to come after my unarmed self, my ally shoots them. My bro and I worked out this strategy while listening to the Hunger Games audio book.

...or I would go completely insane and act like Gollum the whole time... but the game makers would probably not be cool with that.