Thread: Yet another shooting incident in the states

Originally Posted by Tussock

The point of all this is that gun control will "save" a few lives. So will no gun control. You could save far more lives by banning fatty sugary foods. Huge numbers of lives by banning alcohol. Restrict vehicle use entirely, make the speed limit 40ks an hour. More lives "saved". Ban sport. People are killed playing sport all the time.

Its all spin and emotive rhetoric. The most dangerous component of all are the people who can not recognize it when they see it. All of humanities worst atrocities were committed by people that swallowed emotive rhetoric. People who were willing to swallow a line have killed, mutilated, tortured and even eaten, more people, in the history of human society than all the mentally ill people combined.

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You, sir, win teh internets!

Thank you for very eloquently hitting the nail on the head.

I'm constantly amazed at how few people recognise when they are being manipulated. Calls to emotion are generally the last tool in the box when you have no actual evidence or logic to fall back on. How would I know? Selling unpopular ideas, or creating a halfway believable rationale for someone elses ideas, is a fairly substantial chunk of what I do for a living.

The day people actually wise up to how often they are manipulated is the day my job gets a lot harder. Fortunately, the chances of that happening is fairly low. Sad, but true.