Comments on: sikhs

By: Dude with a Dagger

Dude with a Dagger — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:01:27 +0000

No, I don’t really have a dagger.. But as someone said, Sikhs get a free pass because they don’t go around telling people to convert to sikhism..

And to respond to the whole them being terrorists, the terrorism failed because most sikhs opposed the militancy hence Khalistan never became a reality..

Sikhism is a relatively young religion, so many people still adhere to the real “values” of it.. Not to say there isn’t any bullshit, it’s there, A LOT OF IT, it just hasn’t touched non sikhs yet… Give it a few more decades, and it will happen..

By: Tamfang

Tamfang — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:13:49 +0000

Many lives would have been spared if Julio González had used a gun.

By: Shaughn

Shaughn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:22:11 +0000

Neither, John Moore, should one sue tobacco makers because of what smokers do to themselves – although some are apparently crazy enough to do just that in Barry O’bama’s country.

But I was entirely serious in my remark on you agreeing that [etc] without a trace of irony or sarcasm intended. There is at least one point we agree on, that’s all.

By: John Moore

John Moore — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:29:55 +0000

@ Shaugh Since when are tools responsible for anything. Do you sue the scapel manufactuers for the mistake a doctor makes? Do you sue the alcohol company for the driver in an accident? It is the people who are responsible for their actions period. Would you feel better if the deaths from guns were caused by screw drivers?

By: Shaughn

Shaughn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:40:50 +0000

John Moore apparently agrees that it is people, not their tools that are reponsible for their deeds. Unnecessary and dangerous tools should not be unnecessary accessible for people – if in the first place some kids had not had access to arms Colombine and other school shootings would have been practically impossible. Or a 3-year old shooting herself mistaking a gun for a wii-controller… And when less people have arms, less other people would feel compelled to keep up with the Jones’s. In the Old World, violence (and the use of arms) is a goverments monopoly and that works quite well.

But having firearms is some kind of religion in the States, isn’t it?

By: Daoloth

Daoloth — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:39:04 +0000

@:John. Just so- but mistakes made with pencils can be rubbed out. People rubbed out with guns can’t be pencilled back in- so to speak.

By: Sab

Sab — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:54 +0000

The purpose of a pencil is to write. The purpose of a gun is to kill/wound.
An idiot with a pencil will make a spelling error. An idiot with a gun will kill/wound someone.
Lots of idiots with pencils result in stupid new words entering the dictionary and an overall lower standard of spelling. Lots of idiots with guns result in bloody massacres and an overall higher level of fear amongst the population.

Your example is not equivalent. Try again.

By: John Moore

John Moore — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:19:25 +0000

Pencils do not cause spelling errors.

By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:44 +0000

Land sakes, John: a high school filled with hundreds of armed teenagers. Would the last kid standing please turn out the lights before you expire of your wounds?
Your nicely sarcastic remark is a witty turn on the American Dream. Speaking of, I dreamt once the Zombies were in my bedroom. If I had had a gun in the night stand, I’d have shot my closet, lamp, chair, Teddy Bear and cat. Poor Richard says, “A person with tongue in cheek should know when to bite down.”

As I’m sure you do.

By: nina

nina — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:12:48 +0000

I think religions are all equally bullshit, but it is how the religious group interacts with the larger community that really determines how much on the radar they are.

If they want to ghettoize themselves and not convert or push into the public space, then it’s a bit much for an atheist group to go to the group’s turf.

Atheist groups are getting proactive – but it’s about the public space intrusions – not what religions do within their own group.

But as a society, we do need to be aware of what goes on inside closed groups that shun mainstream interactions – especially in immigration groups where too often, the women are unaware that they have rights that are their own, not dependant on the generosity of their husband.

Or in isolationists polygamous groups – although, with only the three known communities – 2 in the US and 1 in Canada – they are probably within a couple generations of gene pool collapse

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