When you direct that question to me, I'll answer. As long as you insist on engaging Straw One Brow, I see no need to respond.
So you're saying you won't respond if I call you SOB? I wonder if the filter here would even let me "engage Straw One Brow".
hmmm. .. . looks like the filter doesn't see that as a problem... . . . get Colton on it ASAP.
Look real One Brow, you're the man with the blog about the Universe, and I've watched you debate popular fiction about the meaning of everything pretty endlessly, and pointlessly. I do wonder who pays you to be on the internet for the amount of time you invest. . . . or how you actually earn your living. . . . but whatever.
I've seen in the immense volumes of your product where you actually look forward, like most "progressives" do, to the time when the UN's stated objective of absolutely no private people having any weapons is achieved, and "world peace" will be the result. . . . negotiated at the tables of unelected UN officialdumb to the complete satisfaction of statists worldwide. . . . . lol.
Until you recognize yourself for what you actually are, nobody can tell you any different from what you think. Besides believing in the promoted agenda of some the world's cleverest propagandists, which I suppose is a human right as well as self-defense. . . . . a lot of folks are as set in their ways as I imagine you are, in complete satisfaction with it all. But let me try one more time to unsettle you with some barbarous little pokes. . . .
do you or do you not realize that's it's just a waste of time to quibble about erudite distinctions in statistical categories of theoretical classifications of human beings? "reasonable citizens" don't exist in the minds of political strategists or government managers...... all citizens must be guided by the "reason" of the objectives of the statists. Anyone who doesn't agree with their agenda must be separated out, labeled as some kind of threat, and marginalized by the media somehow. . . . ignored. . . . called hateful slurs of some kind. . . . Even letting the government have the power to employ professionals to make those distinctions is going to result in horrific oppression.
No matter how airtight the psychiatric classifications can be made, the human who is completely predictable one day just might flip out tomorrow. And that goes for Presidents as much as for druggies behind the liquor store. No professional and responsible approach to management, imposed by the world's leading intellects, is going to be able to stop people from doing "wrong" when they decide to do it, nor stop them from inventing their own views and reasons different from what they're "told". History is replete with examples of tyrants and statists of every stripe who have gone over the deep end somehow, and become homicidal monsters on grand scales, or in unforseeable ways implemented forms of genocide within their own lands, and started senseless wars with neighboring realms. . . . . And that is why it's just a human right, to absolutely possess significant deterernce against the immediate threats to life, limb, or property.
An armed citizenry should be viewed as a civic duty, as the most convincing deterent we can ever hope for, against criminals, gangs of criminals, or governments gone wrong.
we will always have policemen who go bad, presidents or statesmen of any rank, kings and tyrants who go bad. We have scientists who go bad too. There is no place you can safely place your trust, and you have no legitimate business trying to tell other people where they should place theirs. . . .. speaking as an authority of any kind, that is. . . . it is nothing more than perhaps your opinion. God I hope it's your opinion, and not just something on your "talking points" sheet for the day.
And, finally, anyone who imagines a universe that is merely mechanical, or rational, or capable of being reduced to a mathematical equation, is just missing out on all the fun in life.
