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i'd like to ask a few quick questions about this thing with smooth and mirevolver, and if the modding is going to be public from here on out, then i'll ask them publicly.
1. what happened to all the talk a few months ago about tfp opening up and people being able to call a spade a spade? i recall at least two long threads where people were bitching and lamenting that we had to put the kid gloves on. it seems to me that those sentiments are almost like little bubbles that erupt, and then everyone returns to beating around the bush instead of directly expressing what they think.
2. if i were smooth, i'd have been pissed too. if i understand correctly, he called someone out for misusing their own statistical data. instead of admitting he was wrong, mirevolver said that he basically intentionally misused the data just to fuck with smooth / the rest of the discussion? wtf? on one hand, who gives a flying shit? this is online discussion, blahblahblah. but if we're all about the evolution of philosophy and discussion...shouldn't we at least pretend to be having some openness and honesty in this shit? the only distinction i draw with smooth is making the claim the mirevolver is DUMB, which he clearly isn't. i would say just being intentionally obtuse. i mean, its like an advertisement for host or something.
i'm not really trying to attack mirevolver too much here, but to the extent that i have to call this situation out in order to make the point and ask the questions, i am i suppose. if that's a problem, pm me or mod my post or whatever is necessary.
as for the rest of this thread: the last thing i want (no offense dk, debaser and other military guys) is a marine just back from combat, potentially with ptsd, walking around my neighborhood with a fucking rpg. look, keep handguns and shotguns and rifles in your house. i personally have no problem with them being in your car; although i do think you should have to have a permit for it. but the stretch from there to the college environment is just fucking up your side of the argument. its as though you want to convince people that are moderate on this that you are, in fact, fucking insane when it comes to guns. as pointed out earlier by smooth, you've actually got some potential common ground with two of the more "left" members of this board...including fucking roach, and instead of working on general gun control ideas, you're breaking out this notion that people are going to be able to effectively concentrate in lecture with everyone having a pistol on their leg. or that a professor will feel comfortable in front of 250 kids, any one of whom might have a pistol in his backpack. let me know how that works out. tell you what, how about take your family for a walk around the greek houses after the first homecoming game on a campus where people are locked and loaded? see how much safer you feel with your kids hanging out because these kids might save you from a robber or something.
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