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01/16/13, 17:38
...do I really have to say it out loud?
Slippery slope arguments are bullshit logical fallacies. Reality is slightly more complex that "Either do the maximum or nothing." No, you can't ban one kind of gun to stop all gun violence. But if you think that banning one kind of gun which has a greater potential for harm than other guns without corresponding benefits for legal defense, could reduce gun deaths, then it's worth trying. People might disagree, the statistics might show a negligible effect, but the argument that it must be one extreme or the other is nonsense.
Like Jon Stewart point out recently, you don't have to ban cars to reduce fatal car accidents, you can ban certain types of dangerous cars, impose speed limits, require seat-belts. Only in certain issues like guns, gay marriage and drug use do some act like the only options are no regulation, or genocide.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-8-2013/scapegoat-hunter---gun-control
I'm not even going to address the "people who want to ban guns are worthless human beings who favor genocide". The UK bans private ownership, and many other countries like Canada heavily restrict one's ability to own guns. It's not in the slightest bit lazy, or in opposition to critical thinking.
It only seems that way to people who ironically complain about people stereotyping gun-fetish nutters, before comparing the gun policies of peaceful democracies with lower violent crime rates than us, to imaginary Hitler. |  | NRA: Stand and Fight
01/16/13, 17:22
Tell you what: We stop making teachers the most underpaid and overworked people in America, and start recruiting only the best and brightest who have passed mental health checks and done years of training under supervision, and I'd be glad to hear arguments as to whether some should be armed. But until then, it's just an insane notion.
Given the number of teachers that are faced with ordinary violence from students each year, the number of teachers with mental issues or who just lose their tempers and lash out, and of course the number of students that would be trying to get their hands on that gun, could only increase student gun deaths.
More people have died in this country as a result of our responses to drugs and terrorism, than from drug use and terrorism. We shouldn't do the same with school shootings. | | NRA: Stand and Fight
01/16/13, 14:51
Kidnapped children of the President by foreign nationals provokes an immediate DEFCON upgrade. Not because the President is going to take it personally, but because like the killing of an ambassador rather than a citizen, their targeting has different military and national security implications.
And since no-one's mentioned this yet: There is a slight difference in saying that some of the top-trained law enforcement officials in the country should be allowed to carry fire-arms around children after years of training, and arming janitors (as an Ohio school district just voted for) and gangs of ex-felons (as Sheriff Arpaio is moving ahead with) to roam schools with guns. | | Does the Bible contain errors?
01/14/13, 22:45
The same polygamy and child rape conservatives claim result from tolerating homosexuality, is the stuff God is wildly in favor of in the Old Testament. Even in the New Testament, it's hard not to notice that the apostles who condemned homosexuality (not Jesus) had some messed up and unhealthy attitudes toward sex in general, as well as toward women.
But sure, let's trust the old Nazi virgin managing a pedophile protection ring from his bejeweled throne while wearing ruby slippers, a gold cape and staff, and a foot-high hat, as to how to manage our own sex lives and relationships, based on the voices he hears in his head. It's not like the Church has every been wrong before. | | Does the Bible contain errors?
01/14/13, 22:37
The Councils of Nicea and Trent did change interpretations, but their reputation for rewriting them is exaggerated.
It's closer to what CornOnTheCabre was talking about, in that there were over 40 gospels, and the Church picked particular versions of particular gospels as suited their interpretation of Christianity, as opposed to other major Christian groups who had radically different beliefs. Some historians working for the Church, like Bishop Eusebius, then forged and altered other works like Josephus to promote this interpretation.
Still the most likely time for direct changes to the story, was even before the synoptic gospels. John, Matthew and Luke were written by Greeks nearly a century later, who likely added their own philosophy and religious beliefs into a rather different version of the original Judaic Christianity, including the addition of hell, Jesus as a demi-god, and making salvation apply to non-Hebrews. We've no copies of Mark or Paul prior to these works, and what early references exist suggest they had a different message than they were later changed to. | | The Back Up
01/12/13, 17:32
"Crime has become a serious problem in America."
1) So crime wasn't serious before?
2) What exactly about our steadily declining violent crime rate makes it now serious? As opposed to the steadily increasing about of reality disconnected fear the media is pumping into our heads?
3) If you give people shotguns in their reach while dreaming, just waking up, or startled from sleep, do you really think the crime rate will decrease? Bare in mind that shooting your spouse, child or pet is a crime. | | Dinosaurs for Kids
01/12/13, 15:34
"Allosaurus".
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"Another exciting element is that (...)" | | The Dark Knight Trilogy in 3 Minutes
01/11/13, 20:11
"I still don't know why you took the fall for Harvey Dent's murder, but this city.."
Wait, wait, go back. Why did he? Could you answer that please? People already assumed he'd been kidnapped by the Joker's thugs, wouldn't it have been easy to blame them? As opposed to Batman quitting, which looks a lot like the bad guys winning? | | Who gets to judge the evidence?
01/09/13, 05:35
Bear in mind that staying in the trenches is often the point. It wouldn't really cost religious leaders anything to concede basic points of science like evolution. It's no more of a problem for the Bible than the earth being flat.
But by forcing their adherents to believe something that puts them at odds with other social groups and society in general, they maintain the group "us vs them" dynamic that keeps them in the authority of those leaders, and suspicious of all others sources of knowledge. They talk about how faith is good in itself, as a form of blind belief in what they tell people, not whether those beliefs actually match the Bible, let alone reality. | | Who gets to judge the evidence?
01/09/13, 05:31
"And God is on trial"
No, your claims about God are on trial in the sense they aren't just accepted by default. Just like your claims about anything else.
If you start prefacing all your arguments with "someone says that" before describing what you believe God said and did, suddenly the skepticism makes far more sense. | | They call me Dick
01/09/13, 01:43
That's less of a pick up line, and more of a warning. | | IT'S ON: Alex Jones VS. Piers Morgan...
01/08/13, 15:08
I don't think the point is to compare normal people to Jones, but to point out that when paranoid schizophrenics who argue for armed revolution and race riots on a weekly basis are able to stock massive armories of assault weapons with no restrictions, we clearly need some gun control. If the NRC was run like the NRA, the only restriction on obtaining plutonium would be that if you're a kid, you need an adults permission to start your fission reactor. | | IT'S ON: Alex Jones VS. Piers Morgan...
01/08/13, 03:15
I looked up Piers Morgan on Google, and one of the top results was the Wiki for "Cunt".
Specifically quoting Stephen Fry that Patricide is the act of murdering one's father, Regicide is the act of murdering a king, and so Countrycide must be the act of murdering Pierce Morgan. | | Magnascribe Pen Informercial
12/31/12, 22:09
You know what's really inconvenient? Pockets. They're just so damn far away from my hands. I wish that I could keep things in the space near the center of my chest instead. And not in my shirt pocket, because that doesn't let things 'dangle' as I need them to. | | Magnascribe Pen Informercial
12/31/12, 22:06
ICP was apparently right, magnets are "magic". | | Liz and Dick-Highlights
12/31/12, 18:34
Apparently you can say the lines in the script and do what it says to do, without actually acting. | | Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Gag reel
12/31/12, 02:38
I'd imagine forgetting lines stops being amusing after a while, while Brent Spiner is being deliberately funny.
Five for building to the Irish Space Racism episode. | | Psy performs on Christmas in Washington
12/28/12, 02:20
Last year they had Justin Beiber, this year they had two American Idol winners.
I don't think this is meant to be a selection of the world's greatest musicians, so much as pandering to young voters. | | The Dark Knight Rises - With the Boy Wonder!
12/26/12, 15:58
The first one makes some sense, but who says "flew like a robin" in reference to gymnastics? Robins aren't known for being more graceful than any other bird.
Really the whole movie made remarkably little sense, even for superhero movies. Like with Inception, Nolan likes complex plots with twists, but doesn't care much if it can withstand even basic questioning as to how characters do things and why. | | The Wire - Nice Dolphin
12/26/12, 15:37
Die in a fire. | |
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