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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
it means death is all around.
To become obseesed with preventing death can lead to preventing LIVING.
even if you stay at home, never go out, never talk to anyone, and live all 70 yrs of yr life sequestered, death will find you. it could be a slippery tub, a stray bullet through the window, a particularly viruelnt mold in your attic, etc.
It would benefit mankind if there were no alcohol. alcohol related assaults, crashes, accidents, abuse, etc kill more people than most anything else. It would be nice to prevent thes4e deaths, but it is impossible.
In Saudi arabia alcohol is prohibited. women there still die at the hands of abusive husbands.
In china, no one is allowed to own a gun, yet people still go into schools and stab dozens of people and children to death.
my point is the problem lies in MAN not in man's weapons.
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I'm very sorry but all that you're saying is illogical, absurd and atrocious.
It's like saying "why advance medicine if we're all gonna die anyway", it really is.
Every life that can be saved SHOULD be saved.
There are MORE deaths where there are more guns, not because guns make people murderous, but because they make killing easier.
One is much more likely to survive being stabbed, for example.
Individual rights, remember? Everyone has the right to not be killed.
Everyone dies, that's true. But we still try to save people as much as we can don't we? You don't say "grandpa i'm not gonna waste thousands of dollars with your cancer because it's likely to come back", do you?
Everyone dies, but everyone has the right to live the longest, happiest, healthiest life we can possible provide without having their life ridiculously interrupted and we should do WHATEVER we could to minimize the chances of that ever happening. Oh yeah, people will still stab, poison, hit people in the head but can you look at UK murder rates for example? DO YOU NOT SEE A DIFFERENCE THERE? It's out duty to prevent that from happening as much as possible.
You say individual rights, but it seems you only have them if you manage to be alive. The dead for you mean nothing, they're just dead. Because you're not the one whose chances of dying from a flying bullet while walking home from work in your district are on your mind everyday, you'd see things differently if you were.
Have you seen how quickly and randomly a bullet can come from far away and turn a person standing there into a memory in seconds? I have. Have you seen that in front of your eyes? Do you live in a particular place where you can hear gunshots while you're eating dinner every night? And to know all those people who died within seconds could have been alive if there was a LITTLE BIT MORE control.
If human life is not the centre of our
'rights' then we don't need any.