Re: look out! long-haired gun loon!

From: Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin (warrl@blarg.net)
Date: Fri Dec 19 1997 - 02:29:18 MST


> From: nectar@landmarknet.net (Wings of the Morning)
 
> Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin wrote:
>
> > > From: nectar@landmarknet.net (Wings of the Morning)
> >
> > > EvMick wrote:
> > >
> > > > In a message dated 97-12-16 22:57:41 EST, you write:
> > > >
> > > > << Man started with a club, and from that more sophisticated
> > > > tools, swords,
> > > > then muskets, machine guns, grenades, mortars, tanks, planes,
> > > > jets, atomic bombs capable of whiping out mass amounts of
> > > > peole and causing mass distruction. It's inevitable that
> > > > with guns come other weapons. Imgaine if these weapons had
> > > > never been invented, >>
> > > >
> > > > Easy enough to imagine...
> > > >
> > > > Without weapons humanity would not exist.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Humanity perhaps not. Life? Yes.
> >
> > But only certain primitive life forms. Probably anaerobic,
> > certainly no more advanced than plants.
> >
>
> Well disculding natural weapons. What do you call every single
> life
> form before "man" came around and started using tools and weapons?
> Do you consider them certainly no more advanced than plants?

Why did you find it necessary to explicitly narrow the terms of
debate in a way that had never been done before -- and then choose to
ask people to justify *previous* statements that are true in the
former, wider context but not in YOUR narrower context?
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