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Phoenix, you don't always need a comma preceding 'but.' That's only necessary if it's at the beginning of an independent clause. Or is it a dependent? I don't know, it's been a while since I had to do any English classes, engineering keeps me busy with more important subjects. As a rule of thumb, I ...

Yeah but we're not idiots, so

Switzerland, like the Nordics, is very homogeneous and is also economically prosperous with low class disparage and high education. Those factors, more than any proliferate gun allowance, is what lends them a low crime rate. ^And to add on to that point @ Korban, it does show that guns don't cause ...

There's your problem m8

So you think anyone, no matter their past crimes or mental state, should be able to own firearms? Hm. Men are born free. What they do with that freedom is up to them. I think you can lose your right to bear arms if you show that you can't behave in a safe and responsible manner. I don't see it as so...

Background checks on who, the new or original owner? Because they run background checks when you buy a gun from a retailer. I don't see why that's any different. In both cases the intent is to ensure that people with no violent histories, like felons or the mentally unstable, have easy access to fir...

Voting democrat tends to strip rights, ala Washington State's recent legislation. Haven't kept up with that, what exactly happened? Mm, but I'm not libertarian, I'm more of a moderate socialist. I'm all for taxing the super rich and using that money for the greater good. While I don't want a bloate...

Do you live in the US? We don't really have any liberals, everything is insanely balls to the right. Current democrats are right wing by global standards, republicans are radically right wing, and the Tea Party... I'm not sure many people even believed it was a real thing. Anyways. I strongly suppor...

I see your point Ragdoll, but I disagree. Offending people isn't morally wrong or illegal. Who cares if it's an eerily realistic simulation of child porn? It's a victimless crime that could potentially take a healthy chunk out of the real child pornography market. Sounds alright to me. I don't supp...

I think it's a valid comparison. No, a violent video game is not nearly as bad as child porn, real or simulated. But I disagree with the sentiment of "we can show and market whatever we like no matter what the content is, as long as nobody is hurt by its production." Freedom of speech is i...

Child pornography isn't 'not real' just because it's imagery. Hatred is literally just imagery. Child pornography strips a child's right to liberty and property, and thus is wrong on that alone and those who infringed upon those rights should be punished. That is true for live action child pornogra...

People are free to depict whatever they like in a video game, no matter what it is, so long as they don't trample others' freedom to do the same. Because why, video games aren't real and they're just realistic fantasy depictions? Should we also legalize and unrestrict child pornography, since it's ...

There's actually a much simpler explanation: Death is used because it is a simple yet meaningful form of conflict and mechanical progression. Action movies have a lot of death too of course, but what separates it in video games is the fact that you have to have a competitive goal for a story-driven ...

Eh, these forums are pretty dead unfortunately, I post in whatever few threads are active.

Of course I'm being rude, being nice doesn't do anything do him. You've admitted several times over that he just doesn't know how to have an actual reason-based discussion. By all means, keep posting if you want to, I don't see the point.