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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months agoNo he’s saying that weapons permit people to be equally strong. Without weapons, big people get to control smaller people. With weapons, a person gets to modify their own susceptibility to being controlled. I’m guessing you’re a rather large person if you don’t understand this.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoAnd yet they said they would shoot a starving person breaking into their home to steal a loaf of bread. That doesn’t sound like ‘equally strong’ to me.
No he’s saying that weapons permit people to be equally strong.
Without weapons, big people get to control smaller people. With weapons, a person gets to modify their own susceptibility to being controlled.
I’m guessing you’re a rather large person if you don’t understand this.
And yet they said they would shoot a starving person breaking into their home to steal a loaf of bread. That doesn’t sound like ‘equally strong’ to me.