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Comments on: It’s morally right that people should die for my amusement http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: stuart http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-35545 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:55:01 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-35545 “one innocent person to die for your fun”

Never mind him, over here we like the guilty ones to die (or at least bleed profusely. The message soon gets out: it’s not worth risking hail of bullets for the $30 my DVD player will raise at the pawn shop – IF the burglar makes it off my property in one piece!

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By: The Kusabi http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-30413 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:45:09 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-30413 The BBC website has a reasonably sensible, if not impartial, article by a sports shooter about guns – specifically, on how they’re fun and basically safe, except for the very rare occasions when evil people get hold of them and go massacring.

People who would rather evil people had guns than that good people had them attempting to make moral cases against gun ownership for preservation of life purposes is quite the gaudy spectacle.

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By: sanbikinoraion http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-28903 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:40:19 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-28903 “hence popular revulsion at Running Man-style scifi concepts”

You’ve not been watching Big Brother this year, then?

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By: Tim Worstall http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26763 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:46:14 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26763 Britblog Roundup # 77…

Welcome back. In UK blogging news this week, well, there’s a couple of books out. Girl With a One Track Mind was, at least at one point this week, top of the Amazon pre-order lists. I have a feeling that…

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By: Steve http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26492 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:37:50 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26492 The Tory government’s gun restrictions have stopped people having fun (the sports shooters) while doing nothing to reducethenumber of firearms in circulation. Since 1996, fewer people who shoot for fun ahve guns and more people who shoot to kill have them.

The gun ban was an expensive knee-jerk reacton to the Dunblane shootings.

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By: Larry Teabag http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26185 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:40:22 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26185 It’s a good point. When I was in the US a few years ago, I was distressed to discover that firing a great big Dirty Harry handgun with exploding bullets at a paper man’s groin really is very fun indeed. I’d say it was easily worth a few dozen deaths a year, as long as none of them are me, obviously.

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By: Planeshift http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26179 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:33:19 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26179 “hence popular revulsion at Running Man-style scifi concepts”

Give it another 5 years or so.

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By: chris y http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26167 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:37:13 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26167 Why do you particularly think it’s fun to serve margarine to kids? And should we contact the police?

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By: N.I.B. http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26100 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:46:35 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26100 The real shame is when people get killed while doing things that aren’t fun – like driving to work, for example.

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By: The Pedant-General http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/08/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26098 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:13:00 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/08/03/its-morally-right-that-people-should-die-for-my-amusement/#comment-26098 Ah, but John: is it more fun, either for you or everyone else, to be “shot by both sides”?

I think we should be told.

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