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Pretty sure that if guns weren't an option, they would be perfectly fine developing and deploying more pipe bombs.

At this point, I'll settle for any examples you have of what constitutes a "true objective measure". I'm trying to work out whether this statement: ...is an indication you consider objective measures to be real things that exist but only consider certain ones to be "true" objective measures...

What exactly do you consider to be "true objective measures"? Surely you have some examples you could point at if you are willing to make statements about what people do or don't do with them.

I find it funny how, after more than 100 posts in this thread, the one thing that everybody here either has either explicitly stated or implicitly agreed to (by failing to reject or contest, having been given plenty of opportunity to do so) is that the gender identity of the young individual who...

Apparently in Jarhyn's preferred legal system, force-feeding someone either a banana or a hot-dog (but not a grape or a hamburger) constitutes rape, unless it is one of those rare times where the food item in question is medically necessary. Fascinating.

So that we don't get further dragged down into fruitless proclamations and discussions about who exactly is a secret closeted rapist, or whether on not magic is real, or whether or not China actually exists or is just an Geopolitical-Scale Evil Santa invented to scare people into supporting...

At no point did I believe nor claim to believe that such a law would be a good law. The point I was responding to was: Since you are a rational person discussing issues on these forums in good faith, I can only assume that you are currently having some technical difficulties reading and/or...

You don't believe China exists? Well, I think that about says it all, really.

Obviously and demonstrably false. Example: Lets say Society X has a law against driving into pedestrians. Being an enlightened society, the punishment for breaking said law is not designed to punish the perpetrator per se, but rather to provide restorative justice to the victim and their family...

I am trying to determine what exactly is the objection you have to legalizing armed robbery, arson, rape, and murder, given your previous statements. If performing such actions is determined entirely by circumstances (which you have argued) and those circumstances are not significantly modified...

Who said anything about retribution? I am talking about punishment. Punishment may be done for many purposes including retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. Just having the punishment of crimes be handled by the state as opposed to by retributive action from the victim...

Given the above, what objection would you have to a proposal to legalize, say, armed robbery, arson, rape, and murder? After all, if whether or not any given person performs those actions is purely due to a matter of circumstances and the those circumstances are only minimally impacted by the...

Indeed. 93% is an incredibly good rate of success, especially compared to the Gold Standard of non-risky actions which would be Russian Roulette (83.3%). Frankly, Derec sounds like those guys who were protesting that Black people were being killed by Police even though the vast majority of...

The lines from the text of the bill in question: https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2022/148/billtext/filed/pdf

Thinking that something is incorrect is not the same thing as thinking that something may be incorrect. I mainly say this out of the concern that wizarding powers and sloppy and imprecise use of language rarely tend to go well together for any given wizard. Or for anyone around them.

While this situation is definitely not optimal for anyone involved, it's worth acknowledging that there are worse failure states that were avoided in this case. It's incredibly fortunate for all of us that Hannah pled guilty to sexual assault whilst being a minor. Due to that plea, it means...

Nice victim blaming there. Without even any pretense of evidentiary support. Pro-Tip: If you are going to engage in evidence-free conjecture, at least take some time to make it interesting evidence-free conjecture. For example: The Prius driver was obviously right to defend himself with all...

*Insert obvious joke about whether or not Florida constitutes civilized society here* Whatever one's opinion is on the societal status of Florida, the fact remains that the only reason that the person in the Prius lived in this encounter is that they had a gun in the car with them. If they...

Indeed. It's a senseless tragedy when people can't use their car to ram a Prius with someone inside without risking life and limb.

Ah, the classic "No, your Honor. My client was not intentionally shooting the deceased but was instead shooting their hat. The fact that the deceased was wearing the hat at the time is an incidental detail." defense. Good stuff.