How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
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How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
As such my own opinion could be biased from overstudy.
Before publishing it in print, in about three months, I do want to hear other answers off the cuff, if you would be so kind to answer. If it makes sense to include in my book too, I would like to ask permission to include it.
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
That it took you so long, and so many words, illustrates your simple ethical confusion, not some 'rational conclusion', but a psychological rationalization!
I can do it in 16 words;
The 'good guy' doesn't shoot you (or anyone else)!
Actually, healthy 'good guys' don't need guns. *__-
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
You can learn something about a stranger by his or her bearing, speech and manners, but you can't know their degree of goodness without close acquaintance. You can very quickly learn their degree of badness in some extreme situation, but not if they're sneaky enough. A further complication is that most people don't know their own degree of goodness or potential badness until it's tested by extreme situations. Others still are bad in some ways and good in others, or bad in your estimation but good in their own, or vice versa. Then again, people who are half and half may consider using a gun for either good or bad or what they consider to be good or bad, in certain situation, but not in others.
To be on the safe side, it would be better if nobody had a gun and we explored our relative goodness by no-lethal means.
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
1. thorough psychometric testing
2. after the fact.
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
Why guess, If anyone is walking around with a gun you should notify authorities. If you're asking how to tell a good cop from a bad cop.. just assume and treat them as respectfully as possible before you can make your exit.ernestm wrote: ↑March 8th, 2018, 9:48 pm I just finished writing my own answer to that question from a wise child in #neveragain. I'd been trying to write if for four years, in fact, but this time I did finish it, and it's only 8,000 words.
As such my own opinion could be biased from overstudy.
Before publishing it in print, in about three months, I do want to hear other answers off the cuff, if you would be so kind to answer. If it makes sense to include in my book too, I would like to ask permission to include it.
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
The majority of the bad guys aren't.
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Re: How do we learn who is a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun?
Yes. I find there are two keys - openness and responsiveness to reason.
In my experience if someone is not open and not responsive to reason then they are either seeking to gain advantage for a hidden agenda or neurotic.
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