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Excellent point. This is a prime example of how government intervention mucks things up by setting up relatively benign goals, but in practice leads to an outco
by 0x8BADF00D 8y ago
Excellent point. This is a prime example of how government intervention mucks things up by setting up relatively benign goals, but in practice leads to an outcome that is unchanged, or perhaps even worse. What if all Japanese citizens were allowed to carry guns out in the open? An armed society is a polite society.
- EliRivers 8y agoAn armed society is a polite society "Polite" just means "in keeping with cultural norms". If it's polite to deal with disagreements, injuries and insults by pulling a gun, that's still polite but I certainly wouldn't feel safe.
- baybal2 8y agoYou can legally own an artillery piece in Pakistan, but I can't vouch for manners of locals
- jstarfish 8y ago> An armed society is a polite society. If you believe that, you've never lived in Atlanta (or Japan for that matter).
- jchb 8y ago> An armed society is a polite society. Perhaps suggesting that the Japanese need more guns to be polite wasn't the best example. Japan is already one of the most (the most?) polite society in the world - at least talking about how strangers interact.
- village-idiot 8y agoIt’s less about governments, and more about how the law of unintended consequences applies in all human matters. Example: anthropologists believe that on the whole, more polite societies typically murder each other at a higher rate than less polite societies.
- bopbop 8y agoThat's an amazing stat - do you have a source for that?
- village-idiot 8y agoHere’s a forum thread with an overview and some links to primary sources: https://www.debatepolitics.com/philosophical-discussions/221604-polite-cultures-more-violent.html https://www.debatepolitics.com/philosophical-discussions/221...
- bopbop 8y agoamazing, thank you.
- tdfx 8y ago> An armed society is a polite society. *An armed society of rational people is a polite society. And people tend to slip in and out of a rational state depending on their emotions, pride, sobriety, etc.