Yes neurotypical people also do bad things, that doesn’t mean that we should ignore people that have a significantly higher chance of doing horrible things when looking at their population group.
Not every action has to be monstrous to be destructive. For example, a psychopathic daycare worker could simply be consistently negligent until something due to never genuinely caring about the welfare of the children or ignore things a parent would tend to, like a baby crying incessantly because they’re sick or in distress. Preprogrammed apathy can be just as dangerous as malice.
Casey Anthony is a perfect example of this kind of selfishness.
That’s a fair question. If I had a kid with psychopathic tendencies I would try my best to nurture him or her as best as I could and instill value systems based on consequence-based logic rather than empathy based comparisons. I would most likely coordinate with a mental health professional and keep a close eye on them until they came of age (e.g., not missing dogs in the neighborhood). And yes, I would steer my kid away from professions that exacerbated their predator-like instincts. Psychopaths can potentially be productive members of society given that they grow up in pristine environments with 2 parent households, which is a daunting goal to achieve in a modern society.
If my brother or uncle got flagged, then what could I do? Not much, but most likely I would have already judged their past actions and determine how much interaction I would want my immediate family to have with them, especially if there’s children involved.
But I will side with po here, because the more you push the envelope to make a point, the more desensitised we become, and the less inclined we are to take that message to heart.
Yeah but political cartoons are supposed to be clever, even when doing a social commentary.
The point could have still been made without the macabre imagery.
That’s the problem I have with a lot of modern writers and artists these days-- They are too ham-fisted and direct.
Painting a big neon sign over your message that screams ***“THIS IS THE POINT! GET IT? CLEVER, RIGHT?”***, kind of dilutes the impact and the spark that happens when someone is allowed to connect the dots organically.
And not everything needs to be as blatant and loud as Family Guy… It’s that kind of shit that leads these shooters to think they need to be bigger, louder, and more destructive than the last murdering shit-stain of a person.
Sooooooooo, no counter-arguments? No teardown or examples of how the loopholes are broken, you just… “know”. Umm hmm, I believe you. /sarcasm
Moreover, you claim to have firsthand knowledge of people you know skirting around those restrictions (which I’d love to know how) and yet you do nothing…
Who said about keeping anything the same? This is about loopholes. On the previous page Darksakul said people bypass the various gun loopholes. People love to throw the whole loophole argument but can never provide examples on how the loophole was bypassed. I gave examples on procedures on the things he mentioned and wanted him to explain how those loopholes were bypassed. Which is where we are currently.
Im not talking about new restrictions, no politics, so dont try to make it about that. Im just concerned about the facts about how these current restrictions are being bypassed and some examples of it happening since no FFL is stupid enough to ship the gun portion of any firearm (complete stripped AR15 lower, Glock frame, etc.) to someones front door.
So now, as you can see per his reply on this page, there are no counter-arguments since he just “knows”. But because he claims to know first-hand, people who “skirt around the restrictions”, (and apparently is an enabler since he doesnt report it) hes in a position to explain the said loopholes, dont you think?
PS - I wanna make it clear that its strongly implied that the loopholes are of a legal nature, so dont think of using the black market argument because otherwise it wouldve been stated as such in the first place.
Supposedly there’s no notification of when you buy single weapons; but I recall them saying there would have been a notification if he bought, say, two handguns at once.
I can’t get over how much he reminds me of the big sasquatch creature from Harry and the Hendersons… maybe part of his disappointment throughout life was that he was stuck looking like that goofy ass bigfoot all the time.
You get that in everything now, even games. Not so much literature if you know where to look but movies, games, television, they’re all so afraid you’ll miss the point they thrust it in your face. I find the point tends to be more effective when people have to look. A really clever allegory can change how people think.