Dumbest thing anyone has ever said?

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We assign a lot of guns to publicly employed people. Our institutions have used guns to solve problems every step of the way. Pacifists disagree and are quite noble in their disagreement, but non-pacifism is not a remotely novel idea.

Guns are designed to take lives, that has been their basic function since their invention.

Anti-abortion people wail and moan about the taking of innocent lives....see the hypocrisy here?

 

[redandguilty]

Guns are designed to take lives, that has been their basic function since their invention.

Anti-abortion people wail and moan about the taking of innocent lives....see the hypocrisy here?

Oh.


I guess I am an idiot. The thought of the gun was so abstract, violence didn't even cross my mind.


...and I've even bitched about some pro-life arguments being incompatible with being pro-death penalty.

Thanks for your patience.


edit: yes I know I even talked about violence, but it just didn't connect. I don't know how to explain it. I think I might have made the same stupid mistake the guy who made the bumper sticker made

 

[redandguilty]

Oh.


I guess I am an idiot. The thought of the gun was so abstract, violence didn't even cross my mind.


...and I've even bitched about some pro-life arguments being incompatible with being pro-death penalty.

Thanks for your patience.

Tinsel, you might want to make of note of this thread before the next annual meeting.

 

[turok]

I can't tell who is poking fun at the argument and who actually thinks he was being literal. Is this post supposed to be a joke? I don't see it. Sounds like a response to a literal interpretation. He's obviously not being literal. To suggest that he's suggesting that guns are a part of the solution, you'd have to take what he said as a literal suggestion. No way he meant it literally. It's a take on the old "the unborn can't vote" idea.

What he is advocating is impossible literally or figuratively. The unborn do not (as yet) have the same, or part, or similar rights as the living. Banning abortions via the US Supreme Court or the Court changing/altering the ruling, could be the "gun" to permit states to outlaw abortions individually, that would be the bullet(s) to "shoot down" womens' rights over their own bodies.

An unfertilized ovarian egg in a woman's womb could be a victim too, when the sperm "bullets" from rapist(s) "gun" reach it and one successfully fertilizes it. The issue is then made as to when the soon resulting fully formed embryo is considered to be a life, even if it is not yet "alive". But most practising Christians consider life to begin even earlier, immediately upon conception.

But I do not consider all of those who claim that life begins upon conception, to truly be "pro-life". Instead, most are really pro-zygote. Their hypocrisy begins upon birth, however, b/c most also believe in the conservative mantra of "personal responsibility" which means that immediately after delivery, should the mother and newborn lack sufficient if any funds, (whether saved, donated, loaned, or hocked) credit, and/or insurance to pay for the birth, including any pre and/or post-natal complications, then either or both can then just drop dead right there, upon the delivery-room floor.

Disclaimer: I am pro-choice, b/c I believe that I do not have the right to dictate by vote or influencing through campaign contribution(s) to help to elect representatives who would introduce and promote legislation meant to ban or outlaw abortions, should states be given the ability by a SCOTUS overturn of the Roe vs Wade decision, but I also am personally opposed to abortion, as far as my involvement in impregnating a woman. I would try to convince her to carry "our" embryo(s) to term, then decide whether to keep the infant, or give the baby up later for possible adoption.

 

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Oh.


I guess I am an idiot. The thought of the gun was so abstract, violence didn't even cross my mind.


...and I've even bitched about some pro-life arguments being incompatible with being pro-death penalty.

Thanks for your patience.


edit: yes I know I even talked about violence, but it just didn't connect. I don't know how to explain it. I think I might have made the same stupid mistake the guy who made the bumper sticker made

Honestly, I think you're trying to dissect the whole thing a little too much.

Champ said (asked?) if it was the stupidest thing ever, and I pointed out why I thought it was the stupidest thing ever (hyperbole).

I guess it would help us all if you explained your thoughts on it, since you seem to be unhappy with mine, or at least what you're interpreting mine to be.

 

[Michchamp]

I said DUMBEST thing ever said.

 

[redandguilty]

Honestly, I think you're trying to dissect the whole thing a little too much.

Champ said (asked?) if it was the stupidest thing ever, and I pointed out why I thought it was the stupidest thing ever (hyperbole).

I guess it would help us all if you explained your thoughts on it, since you seem to be unhappy with mine, or at least what you're interpreting mine to be.

That wasn't sarcasm. I explained what I was hung up on in post 20. Then you showed me what I was missing. Then I felt stupid.

 

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I said DUMBEST thing ever said.

My mistake.

 

[redandguilty]

I said DUMBEST thing ever said.

Well, that trophy still has to go to RCMB. But I'll take the runner up ribbon.

 

[TheVictors]

This is right up there....

ME on phone with an Ohio-based Sales rep who covered Indiana, Illinois, Ohio ... She was in Indiana and it was the summer time...

ME: What time works for you regarding our client call?
Her: I don't know, I'm in Indiana ...

ME: Uh, okay ...so what time should I tell our clients to dial-in to the Conference Line?
Her: How should I know, I'm in Indiana!

ME: Okay, well what time is it where you are now?
Her: I told you I'm in Indiana, how the hell am I supposed to know what time it is..!?

ME: <Bangs phone on head> Well what time is it in Ohio right now?
Her: 11:30...

ME: How about 2pm then?
Her: Works for me ....so 2pm "Ohio time"

ME: Yes. 2pm "Ohio time"



Not kidding, actual conversation with a sales exec from Charter One Bank.