One of the harder things to do once you realize that politics, it's mechanisms and means, it's marketing, and everything that it is right down to voting is all contrary to being free and the philosophy of liberty, is to remove from one's self all political ideas and the allegiances that one was conditioned to.
I know that it is hard because sometimes I see it in things that I write. I'm not a political libertarian, but rather a philosophical one, and I am cautious of how I interact publicly always trying to avoid showing political preference or even indifference to political action. Washing one's self of political conditioning and preventing its remnants from rearing it's pitifully ugly head is what I'm talking about, and I admit that conditioning does have an affect.
It may not be evident to all people that look at my writings, and that is good because I try. But I do see the same in even some of the writings of people that are closest to me who have the same ideas about statism and liberty. That's not a criticism, I just see that conditioning to statist social norms is a big hurdle to get over, no matter how it shows itself.
But, if someone can be called out on it, admit it, learn from it, and decondition from it, that person is awesome because they are open enough to keep growing.
Back to guns...Nazi soldiers had a choice to follow orders or not, despite the harsh consequences. A firearm is just tool with no mind.
The real objection should be to one person killing another without just cause. To blame the tool that was used to kill should be rather embarrassing, as the focus of guilt is so glaringly misplaced.
I know that it is hard because sometimes I see it in things that I write. I'm not a political libertarian, but rather a philosophical one, and I am cautious of how I interact publicly always trying to avoid showing political preference or even indifference to political action. Washing one's self of political conditioning and preventing its remnants from rearing it's pitifully ugly head is what I'm talking about, and I admit that conditioning does have an affect.
It may not be evident to all people that look at my writings, and that is good because I try. But I do see the same in even some of the writings of people that are closest to me who have the same ideas about statism and liberty. That's not a criticism, I just see that conditioning to statist social norms is a big hurdle to get over, no matter how it shows itself.
But, if someone can be called out on it, admit it, learn from it, and decondition from it, that person is awesome because they are open enough to keep growing.
Back to guns...Nazi soldiers had a choice to follow orders or not, despite the harsh consequences. A firearm is just tool with no mind.
The real objection should be to one person killing another without just cause. To blame the tool that was used to kill should be rather embarrassing, as the focus of guilt is so glaringly misplaced.
An analogy could be made for any tool that could kill. It is bizarre to me that people in this ONE case pick on the tool instead of the harming of others.
Drink and drive, is the car's fault, nope.
Get fat, is it the spoons fault, nope.
Fall from a tall ladder, is it the ladders fault, nope.
Someone shoots someone else, and all of the sudden it is the gun's fault. This is just crazy talk.
Drink and drive, is the car's fault, nope.
Get fat, is it the spoons fault, nope.
Fall from a tall ladder, is it the ladders fault, nope.
Someone shoots someone else, and all of the sudden it is the gun's fault. This is just crazy talk.
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