Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
by ianstallings on Saturday May 25, 2013 @02:47PM
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The beauty of liberty is I don't care what you think about me exercising it. That's kind of the point I was trying to make. That whole "give me liberty or give me death" thing really means something to some of us and we really don't care what others think. They have a name for us actually - Americans.
Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
by glurgh on Saturday May 25, 2013 @03:19PM
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No, those are caricature Americans. No thinking Americans, starting with the founders, made it a point of pride of ignoring what other people think. They may have arrived at different conclusions but the notion they did so because liberty is some function of willful ignorance is idiotic.
Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
by ianstallings on Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:15PM
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Ah yes, ad hominem attacks. Thanks! I look forward to more intelligent discussions with you sir.
Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
by glurgh on Saturday May 25, 2013 @09:21PM
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'Ad hominem' is not some sort of magical incantation you can simply call upon to protect you from 'stupid'. Argue your point.
Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
by ianstallings on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:00AM
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No thanks.
No, you don't. There is such a thing as exposure to risk. Otherwise anyone would have the liberty to build a toxic waste processing plant by your back yard because, hey, that's not hurting you. Yet.
Strangely, this is not the established way of things in any actually functional society.