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Weapon you'd like to own ?
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 27 Aug 2020, 20:09 ---Heinlein defined a weapon as "a device for the manipulation of matter or energy".
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Yeah, he also said that, “an armed society is a polite society.” So, I'd be careful about attempting to divine great insight into his quotes. He wrote some good novels, though, I guess.
Akima:
I would say that improvised weapons, like carpenters' claw-hammers, for example (The Raid 2, warning NSFW-bloody), are still certainly weapons. Many pre-gunpowder weapons were based on agricultural implements like billhooks. I would argue that any object becomes a weapon once it is wielded with intent to cause injury. Purpose-made weapons have the intent to do harm built into their very creation, which is why making or trading in them is not Right Livelihood for a Buddhist.
--- Quote from: Tova on 28 Aug 2020, 22:51 ---Yeah, he also said that, “an armed society is a polite society.”
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People who quote that unironically, I believe, think only in terms of other people being polite to them, not any obligation on them to be polite to others. But my opinion of Heinlein has never really recovered from reading his short-story "We Also Walk Dogs".
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Aug 2020, 23:16 ---I would argue that any object becomes a weapon once it is wielded with intent to cause injury.
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Over here, any object wielded with intent to cause injury not only becomes de jure a weapon, but a forbidden weapon.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Aug 2020, 23:16 ---I would say that improvised weapons, like carpenters' claw-hammers, for example (The Raid 2, warning NSFW-bloody), are still certainly weapons.
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Why yes sure improvised weapons are weapons, but for the purpose of this thread, I was asking for actual weapons you'd like to own, not improvised ones.
Likewise a car is obviously a very deadly weapon, but its not what the thing has been designed for, and its not usually the reason why people want a car.
snubnose:
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