AMUSING

[avball]

It's been a while since I've read anything about the 'gun control debate,' but I was reading slashdot for the first time in a while and came across some nonsense about securing individual rounds of ammunition with an encryption key in an effort to make the world safer for the children or some such drivel. I was highly amused by this

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[2eclipse]

i have no problem with guns per se. i don't like handguns because they are primarily used against people. i am a pacifist. i do not believe in violence even for self-defence or defence of the helpless.
on the other hand, i have no problem with killing animals as long as you eat them.

[armitige3]

So if I kill in self-defense, and then eat the perp, does that make it better? ~_^ Just kidding. I couldn't resist.

However, I do have to point out that killing an animal is still violence. What makes it any different than visiting violence upon a person?

[2eclipse]

i am not against all violence period. the argument can be made against verbal violence....and on, and on. and i am not against violence on principal. i am a christian...for me pacifism comes from that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing, as well as that other thing about turning the other cheek. i also think that killing people is a cop-out. doing things the easy way instead of the hard way of talking things out, and living in the other guy's shoes long enough to understand him - and help him understand us.
if an animal species were found to be sentient, i would also stop eating them.

[avball]

What's your opinion on Romans 13:4 (For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.)? Our chaplain in boot camp used that as an example of why a Christian can be a Marine.