A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

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      1 year ago

      Then provide the factual basis. What definition of “civilization” excludes societies with loose gun laws?

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        1 year ago

        They did, right here.

        a civilized country where you have to assume everyone has a gun.

        One of these things is not like the other

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          Are you trolling, or are you arguing on the level of a three year old?

          Words have meanings. They don’t necessarily have one single meaning, but generally words only make sense in the context of commonly-understood definitions. If I make up a new definition, it’s not useful to use it, as long as other people don’t use it.

          Now, I can argue that the sky is blurple, and I’m fully correct if I define blurple to be the color of the sky. But you will notice that this sentence doesn’t hold any meaning as long as blurple isn’t a commonly understood definition.

          You’re free to show that loose gun laws are commonly understood to be an argument against something being a civilized society. But until you do that, you’re doing what I said earlier: just circlejerking with neither funny nor useful descriptions.

          Do you understand now?