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October 18, 2005
Arguments are fatal
I want to thank Justin for writing some wonderful posts during my long weekend. I especially liked the post on solipsism. (Probably because I am Me, so that's all there is to My Reality!) Prove I'm not my reality, and then maybe I'll agree with your reality! Otherwise, my reality rules! Are debates about realities worth getting killed over? According to Philadelphia's Police Commissioner, arguments cause 98% of the city's murders: Johnson said that drug-related slayings, which can be reduced by intensified police activity, have declined, while killings due to "arguments" now make up more than half the city's homicides.The more arguments, the more murders? It stands to reason that if arguments are the cause of 98% of murders, it would make more sense to make arguments illegal than guns. Do the math! I can't think of a better way to cut the huge murder rate in the blogosphere. posted by Eric on 10.18.05 at 11:01 AM
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Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross reiterated the city's position that the Pennsylvania legislature needs to pass laws to reduce the number of guns that can be sold to an individual. So, evidently, not only are the murders caused by arguments, but somehow they're caused by having more than some number N of guns around. (Perhaps they're thinking N = 0...) Funny, I have well over a dozen guns, and I can't say I've ever murdered anyone, or even killed someone in a non-Murdery way. I guess it must just be that I don't live in Philly. Sigivald · October 18, 2005 05:55 PM A hundred guns kept for self-defense, hunting, or and/or aesthetic value, are safer than one gun or one knife or one rock used to commit murder. It's the man behind the gun who is the issue. "For out of the heart proceed all the issues of life...." Materialists will never grasp that truth, as they look for "root causes" in the external environment. Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · October 18, 2005 08:19 PM |
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Your reality is probably better than my reality. I'll keep my fantasies, though.
I'm against government gun control, and I'd sure as Hell be against government argument control. We need more arguments. If you read St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica, you'll find lots of excellent arguments, on both sides, of nearly every important question, from the nature of God to the conduct of man. We need to bring back that style of thought.