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Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29:17 GMT
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Carsten Schmitz wrote:
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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:
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> > 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...
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> > > > 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?
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 it's really all that bad (seeing as my
favorite themes are Pirate and Castle, and I love Evil Stevies Pirate
Game).
> > Sure, go ahead and play
> > with LEGO however you like, but please, don't tell others how... I
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> 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.
If you don't feel this community represents your views, you are free to
express that feeling (in the appropriate forum), though I don't think
the communitity will change (afterall, lugnet.build.military was
recently added). If you do want the community acceptance to change, the
best place to raise the issue is probably either by private e-mail with
the administrators, or in lugnet.admin.general. lugnet.off-topic.debate
is an appropriate place to debate the general idea of using LEGO as a
media to model weapons.
--
Frank Filz
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