"Gunner" wrote in message
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If you've given up on the idea of a successful society, or if you like
things the way they are, then making self-defense with a gun an
acceptable
and unremarkable part of your life is a reasonable response. If you
haven't
given up, it's something you do with great distaste and with a
determination
to do what you can to change it.

Ed Huntress

So having a spare tire and a jack in your car means that you dispair of
having good tires?

That's what Will was talking about. Comparing human lives to tires is
evidence of a spiritual failure.

Ed Huntress

The inability to follow the logic of "in case **** happens" is either a
blind spot on your part, or an intentional attempt at spin.

No, it's a comment upon what you've accepted as a way of life, because
you've accepted the social failure that Will was talking about.


Where the **** did you get "comparing human lives to tires" out of that?

Hmm. Maybe it was the words? Or were you thinking about something else, and
just typed those words by accident?

You carry a jack in case you blow out a tire. You carry a weapon in
case someone decides to attack you. With luck, neither will ever be
used.

Putting the two into the same paragraph tells us your point of view, which
is one that sees each as an analogy of the other. That's the point. Blown
tire, blown-out brains...all the same thing, eh?

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Ed Huntress
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