(February 15, 2019 at 5:53 pm)Dr H Wrote:
(February 13, 2019 at 8:03 pm)Yonadav Wrote: How about taking away people's cars, Brian? Cars kill as many people as guns. If we take away half of the cars, we will probably reduce car related deaths by more than half.
Flawed analogy.
The purpose of a car is to provide transportation.
The purpose of a gun is to kill.
Deaths result from the use of both, but only in the second case
are the deaths the result of the object being used for its intended purpose.
You've been arguing eristic nonsense with people in internet forums for too long. I didn't make an analogy. That really clearly wasn't an analogy. It was a stone cold argument for saving a lot of lives. You think that we can't reduce the number of cars by half? Of course we can. And there's not much that anyone can do about it, since cars aren't constitutionally protected. If we make a goal of reducing the number of cars by half, then our society will make the necessary adaptations to having fewer cars. And it would save a whole bunch of lives. That's no analogy, brother.
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