“There’s Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre”

"There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre" December 21, 2012 1:33 pm TB

This is a very detailed and comprehensive discussion of alternatives.

I hope it’s useful to somebody.

This covers quite closely the thinking I’ve been doing on this, and organizes it ten times better. I’m not sure there’s anything else I can say that she hasn’t.

excellent reading by FrankC 2012-12-21 14:49:26
- Hmm. I thought is was rehash and a waste of time. Oh well. n/t by RobVG 2012-12-22 10:43:45
- A well-written article by mcfly 2012-12-21 15:29:01
  - "acquiesce" is probably the word you're looking for by Robert 2012-12-21 16:38:15
    - Would you like to define the evil of which you speak? by MaryAnne 2012-12-21 18:31:45
      - taxonomies of evil by Robert 2012-12-21 18:52:56
        
        "We" by MaryAnne 2012-12-21 19:31:19
  - *sigh* by MaryAnne 2012-12-21 15:46:44
    - "Accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue.Approve or sanction (something), esp. with reluctance." Yeah, "condone" ... by mcfly 2012-12-21 16:51:53
      - "Accept," "allow" and "sanction" are not synonyms. by TB 2012-12-21 17:44:21
        
        I didn't make that definition up, TB by mcfly 2012-12-21 18:16:20
      - seeking vs grasping by FrankC 2012-12-21 17:33:59
      - We are saying that the mentality that makes decisions based on the statement "Something must be done"... by MaryAnne 2012-12-21 17:23:49
    - Welcome to my world. by TB 2012-12-21 16:03:18
      - Mary Anne, you're in TB's world? by mcfly 2012-12-21 17:12:49
        
        lolol by MaryAnne 2012-12-21 18:40:12

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