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yep philippines. i guess agree to disagree, i think people should absolutely be able to trivially circumvent financial fraud regulations because preventing them

yep philippines. i guess agree to disagree, i think people should absolutely be able to trivially circumvent financial fraud regulations because preventing them from doing so removes their ability to transact privately. similarly for guns i don't trust the state to know who owns what, like e.g. i want to make sure they don't know who has an AR-15 or standard-capacity mag so they can't actually enforce against existing guns if they pass a feature ban. just principally i'm opposed to putting additional requirements on how ordinary people operate because a tiny minority might do something wrong. and something about requiring an entity to retain information for potential seizure by the government just rubs my sense of due process the wrong way i guess.

metadat 4y ago
I don't want my child to get murdered at school. Few things are more tragic than the ongoing wave of school and community shootings plaguing the United States. I also don't want to get into a gun debate on the Internet, because I'm unclear on what combination of words might persuade you to reconsider your position. What I do know for certain is the world needs much more love and empathy, fewer guns, and fewer self-centered assholes.
- sennight 4y ago
  I feel a little silly responding to a literal "think of the children" argument with a call for actual reasoning instead of emoting... but I have low impulse control. Do you genuinely believe that firearms legislation/availability/capability is the root cause of the "ongoing wave of school and community shootings", and that a further erosion of a constitutionally enumerated right would serve to halt what is "plaguing the United States"? I mean genuinely - root cause. Or, do you suspect that there is a more difficult to address cause - but feel there is nothing to lose, due to a previously arrived at low valuation of the Second Amendment? Here is a hint: it isn't the guns causing the violence, and their removal will at best result in an "ongoing wave" of stabbings and acid attacks. If you actually want to address the problem then actually identifying the cause would be a far more productive use of your time... but again, that is the more difficult option - as is the case with most correct decisions.
  - metadat 4y ago
    Comments like this are why I won't debate about guns on the Internet. I would prefer stabbings and acid to mass shootings. It's way too easy to get a gun, both legally and illegally in the US.
    - sennight 4y ago
      I don't see why "Comments like this" would make you hesitant to do anything on the Internet, unless you are less interested in understanding and addressing the violence being discussed than you are in preserving some kind of self comforting narrative. > I would prefer stabbings and acid to mass shootings. So the elimination of a constitutionally enumerated right to no end... I see that I was right in guessing that you had no interest in actually protecting the children after all, they are simply being used as a pretext. Little wonder why you avoid "debate", the position you've established here is indefensible.

metadat 4y ago

I don't want my child to get murdered at school. Few things are more tragic than the ongoing wave of school and community shootings plaguing the United States. I also don't want to get into a gun debate on the Internet, because I'm unclear on what combination of words might persuade you to reconsider your position. What I do know for certain is the world needs much more love and empathy, fewer guns, and fewer self-centered assholes.

sennight 4y ago
I feel a little silly responding to a literal "think of the children" argument with a call for actual reasoning instead of emoting... but I have low impulse control. Do you genuinely believe that firearms legislation/availability/capability is the root cause of the "ongoing wave of school and community shootings", and that a further erosion of a constitutionally enumerated right would serve to halt what is "plaguing the United States"? I mean genuinely - root cause. Or, do you suspect that there is a more difficult to address cause - but feel there is nothing to lose, due to a previously arrived at low valuation of the Second Amendment? Here is a hint: it isn't the guns causing the violence, and their removal will at best result in an "ongoing wave" of stabbings and acid attacks. If you actually want to address the problem then actually identifying the cause would be a far more productive use of your time... but again, that is the more difficult option - as is the case with most correct decisions.
- metadat 4y ago
  Comments like this are why I won't debate about guns on the Internet. I would prefer stabbings and acid to mass shootings. It's way too easy to get a gun, both legally and illegally in the US.
  - sennight 4y ago
    I don't see why "Comments like this" would make you hesitant to do anything on the Internet, unless you are less interested in understanding and addressing the violence being discussed than you are in preserving some kind of self comforting narrative. > I would prefer stabbings and acid to mass shootings. So the elimination of a constitutionally enumerated right to no end... I see that I was right in guessing that you had no interest in actually protecting the children after all, they are simply being used as a pretext. Little wonder why you avoid "debate", the position you've established here is indefensible.