Comments on: “If it saves just one life…” http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/ The ramblings of a zombocalypse ready, hoplophile Canuck. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5620 Mike Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:23:06 +0000 http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5620 I mentioned the car thing to an associate here at work, and you what really bugs me? Just how PO'd people get when you tell them their gas-guzzling, superfluous SUV is as much of a liberty to own as a handgun, and likely more dangerous. "But Mike, it's completely different if someone steals my car and kills people with it. That wouldn't be my fault." Somehow, if my Para got stolen, I might as well have pulled the trigger instead of the person who <i>fired the shot</i>. Gun owners need the automotive industry's PR guys... I mentioned the car thing to an associate here at work, and you what really bugs me? Just how PO’d people get when you tell them their gas-guzzling, superfluous SUV is as much of a liberty to own as a handgun, and likely more dangerous. “But Mike, it’s completely different if someone steals my car and kills people with it. That wouldn’t be my fault.” Somehow, if my Para got stolen, I might as well have pulled the trigger instead of the person who fired the shot.
Gun owners need the automotive industry’s PR guys…

]]> By: Mugwug http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5615 Mugwug Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:32:34 +0000 http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5615 <b>-GRIN-</b> Too bad the bad guys have that startling lead in anti-nerf technology, we should ban nerf research before our efforts are ruined! -GRIN-

Too bad the bad guys have that startling lead in anti-nerf technology, we should ban nerf research before our efforts are ruined!

]]> By: Kristopher http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5613 Kristopher Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:23:22 +0000 http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5613 Nerf suits for everyone! Yaaaaaaay! Nerf suits for everyone!

Yaaaaaaay!

]]> By: Josh http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5606 Josh Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:30:33 +0000 http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5606 Not to mention swimming pools, tall buildings, every other form of transportation, pesticides and herbicides. And people - we'd have to ban people too. If it saves just one life... Not to mention swimming pools, tall buildings, every other form of transportation, pesticides and herbicides. And people - we’d have to ban people too. If it saves just one life…

]]> By: Mahg http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5605 Mahg Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:26:03 +0000 http://www.moral-flexibility.net/blog/archives/2005/12/20/if-it-saves-just-one-life/#comment-5605 I had a long conversation with my Dad about "Saving one life." It was concerning the 4th and 5th amendment. He sided with the idea that it's okay to circumvent the 4th amendment in order to say one life. I contended that it's never okay to gut the freedom of all for the security of one, and if one person dies as a result of it, as callous as it sounds, then that's the price we have to pay to live in a (semi)free society. I had a long conversation with my Dad about “Saving one life.” It was concerning the 4th and 5th amendment.

He sided with the idea that it’s okay to circumvent the 4th amendment in order to say one life. I contended that it’s never okay to gut the freedom of all for the security of one, and if one person dies as a result of it, as callous as it sounds, then that’s the price we have to pay to live in a (semi)free society.

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