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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:39:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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A guns only inherent purpose is to shoot bullets at something.
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But a gun’s purpose isn’t interently to shoot a person; that’s an
inferential purpose. By extension, the purpose of a pair of scissors is to
cut things, therefore I can cut someone’s throat with them, so scissors
should be banned...
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(snipping rest of silly examples)
The primary purpose of a gun is to shoot something - the primary purpose of a
handgun is to shoot someone. The reason that they were developed in the first
place were to shoot someone. The primary purpose of a scissors is not as a
weapon - it makes a really bad one (I used the example of a pencil for a
reason). You can press a lot of things into service as a weapon, but that is
not their primary purpose. You are basically using the specious argument that
David just pointed out was specious.
-->Bruce<--
(and just to shoot down some replies, I’m not advocating that guns be banned)
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Doh! Well, I guess that's right, but see below: (...) So you're saying that my specious argument (which took up lot of space) and Dave's specious argument (which also took up a lot of space) were of the same spacious specious species? After (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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| (...) But a gun's purpose isn't interently to shoot a person; that's an inferential purpose. By extension, the purpose of a pair of scissors is to cut things, therefore I can cut someone's throat with them, so scissors should be banned. A baseball (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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