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Adult family members find agreements, children get bullied. This tells you all you need to know about how important a balance of power between individuals is.
Where is the biggest power disparity between adults?
Is that a good thing or a bod thing, given that even family members will take ruthless advantage of other family members if the are much weaker?
There are always going to be random loons and psychotics who attack others and hurt them. You know, the McDonalds killers etc. You cannot stop them, nothing can. That being the case, why tool up the one group of people who really shouldn't have any weapons or power whatsoever?
your a loon mate.
repeat repeat repeat.
all he ever talks about is what he doesn't know about.
You cannot get rid of weapons. I have hands, I can make them at will. I agree it would be a better solution, but as it's totally impossible it's not worth much consideration.
Nah, no worries, lets hear it.
Oh right. Errr no. My hands ARE weapons. Fists, you see.
So are yours. Even if we don't create weapons with them. And then you are left with the obvious power/size disparity between men and women and the rapists are once again better armed.
Btw, female to child is the most common form of familial abuse.
you argue for something then destroy your own arguments.
Feel it, feel it
Feel my hand, feel my hand, feel my hand
Feel my arm, feel my arm
Feel my fist, feel my fist
Fists of love, fists of love, fists of love
Fists of love, fists of love, fists of love
Fists of love
No fuck mm
If I am wrong I change my mind. Interesting concept for a politics forum, neh?
Then I might change back. I hold ideas lightly.
Lol. Well it would be, I am male.
I know the difference between subjective and objective reality. Ok so if we look at all people who have hands, can they make fists? yes, yes they can. So it's an objective fact that any human with hands can instantly make a weapon. Whether they will or not is the subjective bit, not the capability to.
It's just one of a myriad of uses. Even if you do not use your hands that way, it is still on the menu. this is an objective fact.
Not really. Are you physically capable of punching someone else in the mouth? Yup. So it's just a fact.
Nope - it's so common it's not even considered wrong.
then you remember when it's pointed out to you ...that they aint so nice after all ...but they haven't killed millions have they ...well you haven't armed them yet have you.
from your decisions based on your perceptions of reality ...we would have less violence rape murder if we had more guns.
then a very obvious example of such a society ...america ...is pointed out to you.
lots of guns ...more violence rape and murder than anywhere else in the western world.
ahhh ...says klint ...i might have changed my mind.
this isn't changing your mind ...it's admitting that your observations based on your reality ...are deeply flawed ...or just plain wrong.
familial abuse. ...it is so common that it is not considered wrong :chin:
how then is it abuse?
Err when did this happen?
I was asked for examples of anarchy working - I gave three - families, businesses and the pub. I notice your not saying that the workplace is filled with peopel hack the shit out of each other or the pub is violent place to be. (And it really isn't, even with all the booze flowing)
Where there is a power balance in a family - i.e. between adults violence is rare. Where there is no power balance i.e. between children and adults there is abuse daily.
So the best thing to do is create a balance of power, as you see between nuclear nations. Don't go to war with each other much, do they?
1) They have one of the most brutal, self serving governments ever.
2) There are other "nations" without this problem, so the problem isn't with the guns, is it?
Oh for fucks sake man. Go our and watch how a series of mums treat a child of say 4 or 5 years old in the local supermarket. It's hiding in plain sight. Open yer peepers!
you do realise that nuclear weapons are relatively new.
allsides have been trying to work out how to get a first strike in and a deffensive system that will leave them largely intact.
the fact that two nuclear nations haven't gone to war with each other yet ...is a yet.
it is a given that they won't.
the macro doesn't always compare with the micro.
as i said earlier ...if i had a gun and knew you had one ...i'd shoot you.
if i had one and you didn't ...i'd havce no need to shoot you.
where you live ...theres no violence in the pubs!
yet in the shops ...women are beating children everyday before your very eyes!
And acting like that would mean you would soon be dead, leaving only rational people behind. Can I ask why you haven't shot your local rozzers yet?
After all they have guns, don't they?
Course there is. The simple fact is you have to get a human being tanked up, jostle him for a few hours in a really hot environment and then insult him somehow before violence ensues. 99% of drinkers STILL aren't fighting, even with all that!