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In reply to the discussion: Is everyone who uses a weapon for target practice secretly thinking about violence? [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)40. Proving my point...
...that in the human mind weapons and violence are inextricably linked. This does not mean that everyone who picks up a rock to cast is contemplating violence at the moment, but it does condition them to commit it and the likelihood that they will increases substantially.
"To say that everyone who plays a game with a weapon is contemplating violence is like saying everyone who has sex is contemplating rape."
But that is not what I'm saying, but I imagine you would have to agree that everyone who rapes was contemplating sex beforehand.
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Is everyone who uses a weapon for target practice secretly thinking about violence? [View all]
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
OP
When I go target shooting, of course I'm thinking and speaking openly about violence!
slackmaster
Feb 2012
#6
When I was shooting tanks I was thinking about chasing women and getting high.
era veteran
Feb 2012
#7
You are assuming people cannot have different thoughts at different points in time.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#24
So are the Olympic games in shooting and archery and fencing leading to militarism?
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#33
"...my argument was that it conditions them to accept and participate in violence."
Glassunion
Feb 2012
#19
Sometimes metaphysics has nothing to do with anything. Sometimes it is just physics...
Glassunion
Feb 2012
#25
Assuming that everyone who shoots projectiles is thinking about violence...
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#36
You obviously would never appreciate how difficult accurate shooting at long range is...
spin
Feb 2012
#38
Of course you realize our Constitution explicitly endorses militarism.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#63
To say using weapons is to be into a "death cult" is like saying being into sex is being into rape.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#47
This "militarization" has been going on since man first picked up a rock.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#32
As I said, I often contemplate violence and the implications of firearms and violence.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#56