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What if you like to target shoot? You never played a game like horseshoes or Whack-a-Mole? Asteroids? It's the same concept, really. Skeet shooting, e...
July 27, 2025 at 23:46
sparsely* Generally so, yes. Of course, it ultimately depends on whom you ask. Some people are reasonable, some aren't. You know that. Perhaps. But a ...
July 27, 2025 at 19:24
In Alaska (which is an American territory), some sparely populated villages do not have traditional roads that can be navigated by vehicles during cer...
July 27, 2025 at 16:26
Tuesday does in fact have a magnificent color. It's somewhat of a pinkish-purple but with just the slightest tinge of aquamarine strewn about. Anyone ...
July 26, 2025 at 21:19
And whose fault is that? Rather, why is that? Because of your own inability to accept that these things exist, bad people have them, will use them. an...
July 26, 2025 at 04:12
See, this gets down to the root of the issue, perhaps unintentionally. It's an "attack". Point blank. Not a debate, not an attempt to better humanity ...
July 26, 2025 at 02:11
In a given society, populace, or set of circumstances, that is correct. I don't think a family member would care very much whether their loved one wer...
July 26, 2025 at 01:20
I'm afraid that's all you my friend and your own solo show. Two people replied to the post, one of which being myself, and you used the term "folk", w...
July 26, 2025 at 01:09
Considering only two people replied to the post in question, one of which being me, I assume that as a invitation to reply. Wanting to at least thorou...
July 25, 2025 at 23:42
The funny part is, all of this goes away if we think, just for a moment, that not every tale and act of God was permitted to be recorded by men, let a...
July 25, 2025 at 22:36
Nice chart. But, the question to answer to determine if it is misleading or not is quite simple: How's freedom of the press, though? Without citizen's...
July 25, 2025 at 22:19
Fair. Still, another slightly different yet fundamentally crucial question remains. If there's two houses to rob, and you have to rob one. Do you rob ...
July 25, 2025 at 21:29
Sure, that's a fair point. When you're outgunned, you're outgunned. You either live to fight another day, or you take the Hannibal approach. Not unlik...
July 25, 2025 at 19:54
With all due respect, you might benefit if you would stop thinking that people are by and large rational, or otherwise like yourself. Patrick Henry, m...
July 25, 2025 at 19:25
Freedom means freedom to do what one desires, provided it does not trespass on a need of another person. In a perfect world, one does not "need" weapo...
July 25, 2025 at 05:50
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July 25, 2025 at 05:45
A gun is an item. Is that correct? It fires a projectile that can be used for hunting, gathering of food, and of course, defense if needed. Food is re...
July 25, 2025 at 05:35
To be fair, I had to Google at least two terms in this reply. The first, understandable, most "ism's" are simply repackaged from their original author...
July 25, 2025 at 05:21
Sure, we're extending the debate into larger enveloping (yet fundamentally relevant) concepts that aren't ordinarily part and parcel of such. Does tha...
July 25, 2025 at 05:07
No, it means exactly what I said. Simplified, bearing in mind the context of your assumption, which I'm sure is quite reasonable: Power corrupts. Do y...
July 25, 2025 at 04:57
Absolutely. And that's the problem. These things don't "scale" as one inexperienced with such areas of social workings might imagine. The average pers...
July 25, 2025 at 04:23
Or, the root of the root of the issue is how to deal with the inevitable monstrosity and absolute horror show that is human nature, unrestricted. I've...
July 25, 2025 at 04:00
Sure, that's a whole topic in and of itself. But. Remember. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison Do you r...
July 25, 2025 at 03:41
Of course. I'm not saying the concept doesn't exist simply that most people misuse the word and throw it around to the point it loses meaning and sinc...
July 25, 2025 at 02:48
So, basically following a time-tested (or perhaps yet to be tested?) plan (or theory, if it has yet to be tested) and sticking to it. Basically, follo...
July 25, 2025 at 02:09
To be fair, it was, but we didn't listen. According to the text in question. Whenever governments try to control birthrates and population they get ca...
July 24, 2025 at 22:18
A human being never killed another human being before there were firearms? Remember this is about firearms, not weapons. A rock is a weapon, if used a...
July 23, 2025 at 17:18
Because you have everything you need thanks to those who did it for you. Are you going to give up your home, knowledge, and basically everything you h...
July 23, 2025 at 16:52
Okay. Your basic, telling a kid fire is hot instead of momentarily putting their hand on a stove or over said fire, for example. Of course. That's rig...
July 21, 2025 at 16:30
So if someone killed your wife or kid or whatever, and you wanted to make them suffer. That's just magically not the definition of torture. Me thinks ...
July 21, 2025 at 15:04
Well, we don't know that for sure. Who could say? Was the first revolutionary invention (incandescent lighting, refrigeration, etc.) spoken in perfect...
July 21, 2025 at 14:41
What variables? You mean truth and the actual reality of the situation at hand? That's a bit of an abrasively dismissive way of describing such, would...
July 21, 2025 at 13:17
Sure. If it was "just someone". But what if the person who was shot actually got away with a crime they were never charged with, say killing a man's s...
July 21, 2025 at 11:24
Webster's dictionary defines "torture" as purposeful infliction of pain or suffering for no other purpose than to do so. Reason and rationale, or inte...
July 20, 2025 at 22:35
Again, more assumptions. If, right now, I break into your house, kill everything alive, including you (or so I thought, but you instead manage to esca...
July 20, 2025 at 19:43
OP, the answers you seek will not please someone such as yourself. You have to remember, we're talking about the idea of a universe where a divine bei...
July 20, 2025 at 03:39
It's something you won't understand unless you're raised into it. You'd just go crazy and think the world is a simulation if you knew the truth. Think...
July 18, 2025 at 21:05
It's pretty simple. But I shan't spoil it for you and others like you. Basically, back then, there were much, much, much less words in existence that ...
July 18, 2025 at 20:15
Biological (or external and outward) maturity =/= intellectual or mental (inward or internal) maturity. Numerous studies attest to this fact. The stat...
July 18, 2025 at 05:37
Not perfectly, predictably, or uniformly, no. Not every time, not on every occasion. But surely lack of education is what creates worse people or at t...
July 18, 2025 at 03:23
Oh come now. No innocent man has ever been framed. No bad thing has ever happened to a good person? What fanatical idealism is this? And yes, you know...
July 16, 2025 at 04:58
I find this to be a bit of a misconception. Surely you can understand why.
July 16, 2025 at 02:48
Why do we pronounce "ballet" as "b'leigh" but not "bullet" as "bull'leigh". Why. #MakeItMakeSense :grimace:
July 16, 2025 at 02:03
See, here's the kicker. To be able to definitively say, without lying "everything is " requires a perfect understanding. At least, one that is conside...
July 15, 2025 at 11:01
Kind of ironic though. Implying your ability to understand is perfect in this one context only for no reason at all. :lol: More so, as to the original...
July 15, 2025 at 09:23
A "bad" or "evil" society considers things that are virtuous and just as the opposite. Similar to how kindness is equated with weakness or honesty is ...
July 15, 2025 at 08:26
Of course. Our understanding of a non-static system will naturally result in "nothing we can observe" (the lowest designation) to "the highest thing w...
July 11, 2025 at 07:43
i understand. Of course, "justified" basically means "sounds good to me" which as I'm sure you're aware of can vary greatly, to the point of legal ins...
July 10, 2025 at 13:56
https://www.philosophy.com (or a simple Google search for the word "philosophy" will do) Now as to whether said phenomenon is an "evolution" and not a...
July 10, 2025 at 12:18
So does this preclude the idea of, forgive me, "untrue knowledge", or at least, information that is, by all intents and purposes true at a given momen...
July 10, 2025 at 09:09