Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ah, so what you mean is that it’s okay for the strong to take advantage of the weak when you’re the strong one.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Please define “take advantage of” in your comment. The entirety of my comments here have been in a self defense context. I don’t see how my owning and carrying a gun means I’m “taking advantage of” anyone.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting how you want me to define terms but haven’t defined them yourself.

      You haven’t defined “the strong” or “the weak” or what you mean by “self-defense.”

      Maybe start defining your terms first before you demand it of others.

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      • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re shitting me, right?

        In this thread where I describe my fucked up back, rating from the VA, my inability to win fistfights, my worry about my wife and daughter defending themselves from men. And you can’t figure out what I mean by “strong” and “weak”. Bullshit. But fuck it, let’s do this.

        You haven’t defined “the strong” or “the weak”

        Both of these are used to describe ones physical prowess in relation to the other. They’re relative. Someone “stronger” than me can overpower me through physical means and I would be helpless to defend against it, given no other tools.

        or what you mean by “self-defense.”

        I’ll just go with the dictionary on this one:

        the act of defending oneself, one’s property, or a close relative

        Now feel free to explain what you mean by “take advantage of” in the context of my using a gun to defend myself.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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