• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      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.