Do You Own a Gun?

[BigV]

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Please, Urbane Guerrilla, stop calling people stupid. Ok? As a favor to me, would you please?

Thanks in advance.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by BigV

As a separate post...

Please, Urbane Guerrilla, stop calling people stupid. Ok? As a favor to me, would you please?

Thanks in advance.

Sorry, V, but whenever you speak stupidly -- assuming I catch you at it -- I'll call you on your suboptimum thinking. It is hardly ad-hominem to point out errors. In a forum, stupid is as stupid speaks.

You are in effect asking me, through all your arguments, such as they are, to leave you in your previous condition of ignorance.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance, is it not?

Leaving you in your previous condition of unknowingness would hardly be the action of a friend, now would it?

Is insisting upon ignorance the action of an intelligent adult human being?

You seem to have a little problem with me trying to bring a sort of balance here: I know something, and you don't. I do not understand your refusal to know better than once you did. Knowing better worked for me. I used to be ignorant too.

You are free to do the sort of thinking you do precisely because the people who think as I do are the ones standing watch -- in camouflage uniforms, in blue shirts behind badges, and in plain clothes.