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Ah, religion, contradictions, and changing of stances.  (Finally can't hold myself away from the religion discussion funtime)

Go KILL your son!
Later...
Lol JK its just a test, now cut off his penis


Murder all these people and rape their women
Later...
Ok, you shouldn't be murdering people, thats a bad thing.

Take all these laws and severely punish those that break them
Later...
Ok, well, now I guess you shouldn't be so harsh on them after all.  Love, mmkay?


Meanwhile, in another dimension....

Oh, these seem like perfectly fine teachings
Later...
Ugh! Obviously they were from the devil! Strike these Satanic Verses!

Meanwhile, at the legion of Mormon...

The blacks are inferior forever due to opposing GOD!
Later...
Ok, well, white just meant pure, and blacks can now be good! Thru hard work!

....


What are some other religions BS?  I haven't done much studying of Eastern religions, or Native American, or Aborigine.
I've also forgot a bunch of the good ol Greek/Roman stuff, even though I see it all the damn time, thx media!

Norse stuff I mostly see in media as well, what all does that have in it? Never got into depth with it.

Theres plenty more religions out there of course, if you have examples please let me know, I'm collecting contradictions and neverminds.

Quote from: Moghjubar on July 27, 2012, 08:01:22 pm

If you go all the way with the 'right to bear arms', then everyone has a right to all sorts of weapons. 

Landmines and rocketlaunchers for all! 
In fact, in order to ensure we have a militia that can protect us from random shooters, we need mandatory concealed carry rocket launcher permits for people.
/logicalextremebasedonwording

I think the logical distinction in terms of self defense is that the typical firearm can be aimed, and against specific targets with minimal collateral damage under many circumstances. Explosives, and fully automatic weapons can not. So their restriction is allowable.

Many circumstances indeed.  However, firefights by nature are typically chaotic, just look at friendly fire statistics.
As far as guns themselves, they are a tube which contains an explosive that propels a shaped piece of shrapnel in a single direction.  Said direction is based upon who is aiming the device... which could be the average person, or someone whos even stupider than that.

A landmine on the other hand could be rigged to do a shaped detonation and only specifically against whoever triggered it, with a very specific placement on your property that you want to defend.  With proper tech, you could even RFID chip people whom you don't want blown up.  Etc etc, arguments arguments, blah blah blah.

The trick is, there are laws regarding arms even though if the 2nd amendment could not be approached at all, there would be none.  We certainly don't want firearms in certain locations, and certainly make it illegal for prisoners to have them.  Its not so much of holding the 2nd amendment up on a pedestal because we DO have limitations that chip away at it (both its wording and its interpretation).  Limitations that sometimes people even agree on.

That said, there are places in this country where not having a gun (shotgun or rifle) can be detrimental to your health.  We use said things for hunting, or defense against feral beasts (though sadly, usually for herpdederp I kin shoot sumtin).  Would throwing dynamite into a lake be good for fishing?  Well.... people have done it, and it sorta does work, but its dangerous, stupid, and harmful.  For such things, we typically would want to do the necessary gear only and not overkill, and overkill is specifically the problem here:  things which are designed more for killing large amounts of people rather than use as tools and self defense.

Note: remember, SWAT teams need the AP bullets due to http://www.angelfire.com/super/killmurderhog/caligunmen.html (sorry about the source).

While I love the religion discussion, may want to consider moving it to the thread for it.
Please.

The thing about these home printers though: its a lot more work to actually print a gun than it is to just go buy one currently: setting one of things up to print accurately is a pain in the ass. (reference: brother has one, helped him put it together)
Note: this included buying unregistered guns.

Now, when multi-material and built-in machining with pro-accuracy comes to the general public at an affordable cost... thats different.   

Quote from: scriver on July 26, 2012, 05:08:46 pm

There's absolutely no reason a Christian should have to believe or follow every word of the Bible.

Because it is their primary holy text? For most it is their only holy text?

You kind of have to adhere to a religion's demands to be part of it. I can dance around naked throwing buckets of strawberry syrup on people and call it Hinduism, but that doesn't make it so.

Wait, it isn't?  What have we been doing then?  Buddhism?

Unholy

Hrmm, strange, its not working.

Meanwhile, in Paulville....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/the-pauls-new-crusade-internet-freedom

Wha....?

Well, I guess in addition to the general election thread which is for all things American Election related, we also need a 'Romney is a dirtbag' thread too, due to the myriad of talking points about this fine topic.

Of course, we could just keep it to a few things here and there and keep it in the other thread but hey, if we want to open up some more cans of worms I'm sure we can catch some good fish.