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Subject:	Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:05:06 GMT
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:200111271500.fARF04d15527@localhost.localdomain... > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jennifer L. Boger wrote: > yah, I would be one of those people. I am also pro gun control, and yet I > believe that it's not guns who kill, it's people. A gun can be used to > protect, and save lives. Yeah. An a-bomb can too... > > > Lego was to be meant as a toy, weapons are not. > > so no more pirate ships, warships, any military models, wild west, > aquazone(/raiders, etc) classic space, star wars.... I'm sure there's • more > "non-toy" themes, but I get tired of listing them. These are all fictional or historical themes as you may have noticed. Show me a LEGO theme that plays in our current time which uses weapons? > Sure, go ahead and play > with LEGO however you like, but please, don't tell others how... I See. I understand why you say this. Fact is that I didnt tell anyone how to play Lego. I just didnt want to be represented as a member of the AFOL communtiy by a person that builds weapons of it because I (and its only my opinion that i state here) would not use Lego for something like that. I wonder what LEGO's opinion would be. I bet they would never sponsor or adorse models like that. But that's another thing. > some of the most amazing models I've seen lately were military ones, > doesn't mean I want to have a Tank in my garage? No. It doesnt. Depends what you like about these models. I may be extreme in my view. But sometimes extreme positions let you see the things from a different angle of view. Carsten

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		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) really? how do you figure? or was that sarcasm? if so, it doesn't refute my argument... (...) something like town? with bank robbers, police officers? All armed, by the way. (...) you maybe didn't tell him how to play, but you did tell him to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) I think the romanticism of violence implicit in Pirate, Castle, Wild West, and Adventurers is far worse than the desire to make as accurate as possible a model of something which happens to be a weapon, though I obviously don't actually think (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) He didn't build a weapon, as far as I can tell. He build a MODEL of one. Big difference. If he built an all plastic, working, lethal hand gun that could be assembled and disassembled from easily obtainable parts, you'd have a point. Something (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) Isn't the idea of non-violent toys that we don't encourage the IDEA of violence? I mean, isn't an A-Bomb a historical weapon? Is that ok for a toy? How about a medieval torture chamber? At what point in history or fiction does a weapon (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) My post is directed at the reply: (...) By this comment is it safe to say that you feel historical weapons and any death they caused are acceptable, but any in our "current time" are not? Weapons are an unavoidable part of our history and our (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
(...) that is (...) would (...) not a (...) yah, I would be one of those people. I am also pro gun control, and yet I believe that it's not guns who kill, it's people. A gun can be used to protect, and save lives. (...) so no more pirate ships, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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