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I guess that's a perspective thing. I wouldn't consider a gun a neutral thing either.
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I do.
It's the users that the problem.
And they mustn't remain unchecked.
And that's all I'm saying on that subject. Or we will slide quickly into soapbox territory.
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fair enough. i understand your position. the reason mine is different is purely based on the potential danger of said thing. I factor that into my assessment while you consider it a separate issue.
We can agree to disagree. 
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Crap, now I'm breaking my own promise, but this is from a strictly theoretical point of view from my first response.
The gun itself is a tool, and the user needs to consider the consequences of his/her usage.
The constructor and lawmakers has a completely different responsibility in predicting how the tool might or will be used.
There are a lot of laws I consider stupid and that they shouldn't need to exist, but I also realize that people are assholes...
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All I'm saying is I account for the accidental discharges of said firearm in terms of it's neutrality. I don't think a car is neutral. I don't think anything that grants power to an individual is neutral since by default it instills the user with additional responsibility. Just where I sit. Your position is understandable even if we don't agree. Just clarifying where I'm coming from.
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Not meaning to trivialise your post at all, but it reminded me of what Mary from Conoga Park said.
Quote: Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I like that.
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This is why I still enjoy reading the classics and good literature.
Sometimes wisdom can only be communicated through metaphor and analogy rather than simply through instant access to huge volumes of information.
Aesop's fables, fairy tales and ancient Greek and Roman literature(originally songs and poems), even the Bible if you are that way inclined, do a pretty good job of cautioning against the belief that knowledge or technical mastery is enough to lead a good life.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Knowledge has always been in close relationship with Technology. Wisdom is always a close follow up. You cannot have a wisdom without knowing what's the potential of that knowledge. so wisdom is always a shadow of the knowledge.
Most importantly, knowledge is always a neutral thing. Wisdom comes after how the users use/misuse the knowledge.
Consider the knowledge of making fire. Wisdom came a step later realizing how it can destruction or make food more hygienic/tasty. This knowledge which led to advancement happened because of the majoritian wisdom about it.
If that time cavemen decided to play with fire and start burning everything for fun, then world perhaps would have ended.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Jorgen and I just had this argument, so I refer you to that thread.
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I think the word you're looking for is "honour".
It's almost vanished completely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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i mean maybe that too? but i was talking about wisdom
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The chances of there ever being wisdom are zilch.
We will get it, and therefore stop killing each other, when hell freezes over. The chances of the latter happening is zilch and so is the chance of the first proposition.
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What is missing in the equation is morality. To have wisdom requires having morals as well as knowledge. Wisdom is the good (or correct) and wise use of knowledge.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I tend to take the view I came away with after reading the Babylonian Talmud, and that is that morality is a facet of wisdom. That is to say, the most effective choices are also the most moral choices, but human morality itself is wanting, which is why it imposes a different way of computing morals through microcontracts.
It's an interesting way to approach it anyway. It's not for everyone. I'm not even jewish, but I stumbled onto this and it has appealed to me ever since.
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I am currently looking for a gig, preferably remote since my medical situation has evolved to a 'work from home if possible'. I hate to sound biased, and I try my best not to be, but I would really like to talk to recruiters that have some modicum of knowledge speaking the English language. Caller IDs say they are anywhere from Wisconsin to Texas to Alabama, but very few of them can make themselves understood to the point I feel comfortable making any kind of agreements over the phone.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: speaking the English language.
How dare you want to work with someone you can understand. Typical privileged American. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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What is this 'priviledge' you speak of? The only privilege I have at the moment is being born left-handed  . That just overrides the detriments of being broke, jobless and (I just found out) needing expensive medical treatments for liver disease and dupuytren strictures in both hands. 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Quote: Typical privileged American.
When you say that stranger, I strongly advise you to smile.
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It's just that they use offshore HR to reduce cost.
But then those offshore HR people need to find Americans! 
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Caller IDs say they are anywhere from Wisconsin to Texas to Alabama, but very few of them can make themselves understood
In America, they haven't spoken it for years.
-- Prof. Henry Higgins
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Once you start understanding what they say, you will then be amazed by their lack of knowledge of what they are talking. This is why I prefer to apply directly on the company's website and choose email over phone.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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