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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Didn't a ban on weapons encourage the development of at least some of the martial arts?
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Sure, after years of intensive training, a martial artist may have the skill to kill a few people, in an intense hand-to-hand-fight, during which they could be outnumbered and disabled by people in the vicinity. An amateur with a firearm can kill lots of people, very quickly, with ease.
'Freedom' arguments don't wash with me. There's no such thing as freedom. Hell, the ideology of revolution is itself a mentally-skewing dogmatism. For all of the chest-banging and constitution-quoting and founding-fathers invoking that I've seen going on at IW, who among any of us bourgeois computer geeks would actually have the stones to incite and/or pursue an open rebellion against a so-called 'tyranny'? None. I betcha.
We have computer games to dull our fighting instincts and fulfill our adrenaline cravings for us. Let's stick to those shall we? You can save and reload when things inevitably fly out of your control. Nice and safe.
You're not free, and you don't want to be, whoever you are.
[ 10-01-2004, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]