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coming to you live from the muder capital of the world:
jinnkai: the trick with pascal's wager is simple enough: it is told as a dialogue between two voices. one of them tries to convince the other that there is no way to avoid the wager. you must choose, he says. well, that's just dandy in the context of the pensees, which are (among other things) a curious kind of evangelical tract....but the wager is not binding in outside that context.
one is not forced to choose.
one can simply walk away.
that's the option i choose.
on the other conversation: to say that gun controls do not work because they have not prevented all gun related crime so therefore there should be no gun control is like saying that drunk driving laws do not prevent all people from getting wrecked and then driving so there shouldn't be any drunk driving laws.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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