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Originally posted by Yorick:
I was talking to an American conspiracy theorist who foundationalises the right to bear arms. Seeing as he was applying an American perspective into a non American culture, I felt it was valid to point out the differences he seemingly ignored. [/QB]
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It would be rather crass to call me a conspiracy theorist, as I'm more preoccupied with other things. What's more, just because it
hasn't happened doesn't mean it
won't happen. If the notion of people being inherently evil is sound (which would raise serious questions about depending upon a government full of those evil people for anything, or wanting to do business with them) or if Australians aren't somehow superhuman (though you made it sound like your culture was one where violence and bad things plain don't happen) I'm going to say your country is just as much open to the windfall of evil conspiracy (remember, in that particular debate, I shrunk it to 2 people, not hard to find two evil people anywhere, much less 2 evil people who network a little) and good conspiracy.
My perspective in
that discussion wasn't uniquely American, and Australia's situation wasn't uniquely non-American.
Also, for the record,
Moore has
not responded to the serious criticisms levelled against
Bowling For Columbine, and he's been not responding to those criticisms for two years.