Difference: steak knives have a potential beneficial effect, and are primarily used in positive ways.
There are also laws against the negative uses of steak knives. That's all I'm recommending; instead of banning steak knives, ban stabbing people with them.
Oh, and did I mention that
Mafia is just a game? There's really not much effect even if I somehow accidentally derailed a game.
Of course people don't have to stop at all intersections. But if you pay close attention, you'll notice that all intersections will have specific rules detailing how you should drive through them. Every single one. I'm not even kidding you right now. Think about this... Even IF it isn't a four way stop intersection, people still have laws to obey about that intersection. What a novel idea. So yes, you are being made to stop at certain intersections, or not talk about certain mafia games...
No. I'm not being allowed to talk about
any ongoing mafia games, analogous to stopping at every intersection in my analogy. Some kinds of talking are bad. Some are not.
And by the way, please stop using faulty analogies. There's a reason that's a fallacy.
Start explaining why my analogies are faulty.
For example, you attempt to use an obtuse analogy to justify your position. (as pointed out by Jack A T) It also tends to lead to more fallacious reasoning and faulty analogies as well. For example, I can give you examples of how giving semi-automatic assault rifles to elementary students is can be good. Does that mean that we should give every small child an assault rifle just because it might help someone? Of course not, and the whole premise is a fallacy as well. Assault rifles, and steak knives, are significantly different then talking about an ongoing mafia game. So different, in fact, that it removes most validity from any comparison.
Wait. You're telling me to not use faulty analogies, which you hammer in by...comparing my analogies to something completely different. Why?
1. My analogies are not actually all that bad, if you don't try to twist them too far.
2. My analogy is like "Banning all of X because you can do bad things with X is bad because you can do bad things with steak knives". Yours was "Good can sometimes come of X, so let's do X without regard for the consequences".
I wonder if we can all get this to the banter and OOQ thread.
GWG, Please use relevant and pertinent analogies to explain your thought process, unless those are exactly what you think of it, because they're off rails most of the time 
Well excuse me for not wanting to argue with you idiots so much that I spend 15 mintues on the
perfect analogy. Why am I bothering? You're all zealots. Whatever mafia always thinks is right. Doesn't matter if it's this, or scumtells, or anything. I'm out.
