Post #4190324
2026-07-29 08:57 UTC
@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social You can make a statement like "A gun is designed for violence as therefore..." that's fine and an interesting statement.
Gun Availability increases Gun Deaths makes the anti-gun person making the statement look like an idiot that understands neither guns nor basic logical entailment.
If you can't understand logical entailment, then you can't understand any argument whatsoever, and you can at best play the role of human stochastic parrot.
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 09:59
@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space If you're going to ad hominem's in response to critique, then you're no better then techbros, who get offended when someone says “no” to them. Essentially this proves my suspicions earlier from the thread that trying to be an “enlightened centrist” you're on the wrong side of the argument. P.S. Category error is an ontological mistake, no need to get logic involved (\s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake P.P.S. How's this for “logical entailment”? https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/firearm-availability-suicide.html P.P.S. Timed mute