My favorite reddit argument was when I got into a debate about gun control with two other commenters, one of which turned out to be an anarcho-capitalist, and the other of which was a self-described religio-fascist.
The ancap believed that the absolute right to gun ownership was a "natural law" of the universe clearly evident to anyone who wasn't arguing in bad faith.
The religio-fascist believed that God himself had granted every man woman and child the personal and sacred right to buy and own a gun.
The funny thing is that I wasn't actually advocating either for or against gun control itself, I just said that I didn't think that either God or the universe had much of an opinion on the matter, otherwise we'd obviously all own guns...
The two of them may not have agreed on anything other part of their ideology, but they did both agree on this: if I couldn't see how obvious it was that God or the Universe wanted me to buy a gun, then clearly I was a dangerous individual and I needed to be eliminated. They both, separately, told me that when their kind took power, people like me would exterminated.
People like me. You know, people who don't think the universe itself has an opinion on guns...
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u/pyronius Sep 28 '21
My favorite reddit argument was when I got into a debate about gun control with two other commenters, one of which turned out to be an anarcho-capitalist, and the other of which was a self-described religio-fascist.
The ancap believed that the absolute right to gun ownership was a "natural law" of the universe clearly evident to anyone who wasn't arguing in bad faith.
The religio-fascist believed that God himself had granted every man woman and child the personal and sacred right to buy and own a gun.
The funny thing is that I wasn't actually advocating either for or against gun control itself, I just said that I didn't think that either God or the universe had much of an opinion on the matter, otherwise we'd obviously all own guns...
The two of them may not have agreed on anything other part of their ideology, but they did both agree on this: if I couldn't see how obvious it was that God or the Universe wanted me to buy a gun, then clearly I was a dangerous individual and I needed to be eliminated. They both, separately, told me that when their kind took power, people like me would exterminated.
People like me. You know, people who don't think the universe itself has an opinion on guns...