Yeah . . .Wormtongue wrote:Ever considered that we may well be the Galaxy's loony bin?
At a different forum, I found a forwarded article wherein somebody demanded outlawing all guns. I posted this:
That's just the short list. I could also go on about what weapons to ban, besides firearms: cooking utensils, furniture, sports equipment, hand tools, swimming pools, gardening implements, bathtubs, motor vehicles, bedsheets, pillows, house wiring -- gravity -- hands, feet, knees and elbows -- oh, yeah, rocks and sticks . . .People just love to kill one another, for all kinds of reasons. They do it all day, every day. Sometimes they even do it without the use of firearms.
I think that if the author of that paper wanted to end violence, instead of banning guns, he should have proposed banning all the things that people kill each other over. Stuff like money, food, land, boyfriends, girlfriends. Cars, houses, jewelry -- clothes (remember Starter jackets?), shoes.
Don't forget hair styles, clothing styles, tattoos, dirty looks, finger gestures, and certain words. Language, skin color, religion. Alcohol, drugs, unlucky poker hands.
We should really get busy eliminating all these things, or there's just never going to be any peace around here.
As if that weren't enough, I just got done watching The Help.
It's no damn wonder the aliens never come to visit this place.