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12429 Re: Killing animals for entertainment*
   "The US is trying to fix a big problem that involves killing innocents...
faul   ALEA   10 Jan 2013
1:37 PM
12424 Re: Killing animals for entertainment*
   Per Geoffrey Stone. Same thing different words. The harm principle...
Cactus Flower   ALEA   10 Jan 2013
1:35 AM

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Re: Killing animals for entertainment*

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Wed, 09 Jan 13 8:19 PM
Msg. 12423 of 54959
(This msg. is a reply to 12420 by faul)
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Hi faul,

Like clo, haven't seen it. But maybe there's someone out there making a joke in poor taste.

That's a bit different from a person with a gun shooting 20 children at their kindergarten. Less amusing.

Certainly there are some folks appearing on tv about whom I wonder how on earth they are allowed to possess a weapon.

But tv interviews is not what the argument is about. The US is trying to fix a big problem that involves killing innocents. Ruling out the thing which actually works (ie making it hard to possess a weapon) is a bit hopeless.

I get that your freedom-good intentions model suggests these massacres shouldn't happen. But this is how things work in reality. Unregulated environments produce negative externalities.