EPTpsycological problems, family problems, criminality, are all arbitrary issues in the light of how ridiculously easy it is to own a gun in your country!
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The gun control argument stops now. I know it's fun to argue about it in the heat of the tragedy when you can get all worked up about it but it's pretty disrespectful and if you don't care enough about the issue to make a separate topic for gun control then you don't care enough to shit on the tragedy by exploiting it. A gun control topic can be found here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=313472 Also stop posting links to his facebook. TL will be no part of an unconfirmed witch hunt. | ||
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Christ the Redeemer
Brazil161 Posts
psycological problems, family problems, criminality, are all arbitrary issues in the light of how ridiculously easy it is to own a gun in your country! User was warned for this post | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
On January 22 2013 12:46 Christ the Redeemer wrote: I have a question regarding the thread note, if "gun ban/gun control" is not at the heart of this issue, what is? psycological problems, family problems, criminality, are all arbitrary issues in the light of how ridiculously easy it is to own a gun in your country! valid point, but there's a thread for gun control and as far as I know it's perfectly okay to bring up Sandy Hook in said thread. I think that rule is more about keeping the thread from being derailed than it is about censoring gun control discussion. | ||
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neggro
United States591 Posts
On January 22 2013 12:46 Christ the Redeemer wrote: I have a question regarding the thread note, if "gun ban/gun control" is not at the heart of this issue, what is? psycological problems, family problems, criminality, are all arbitrary issues in the light of how ridiculously easy it is to own a gun in your country! What about the actual case? | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories I put the abstract in spoilers, but the whole article is worth a read, imo. As the title implies, it shows how conspiracy theorists believe opposing conspiracies (if A is true, then B is false, but they believe both A and B), and it's all based on their preconceived belief that the government cannot be trusted. What else is interesting is (and I don't have the source for this) that conspiracy theorists seem to become more grounded in their beliefs as more evidence mounts against their case. It's pretty bizarre, really. + Show Spoiler + Abstract: Conspiracy theories can form a monological belief system: a self-sustaining worldviewcomprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs. The present research shows that evenendorsement of mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively correlated. In Study 1(n= 137), the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered. In Study 2 (n = 102), the more participants believed that OsamaBin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the morethey believed he is still alive. Hierarchical regression models showed that mutually incompatibleconspiracy theories are positively associated because both are associated with the view that theauthorities are engaged in a cover-up (Study 2). The monological nature of conspiracy belief appears to be driven not by conspiracy theories directly supporting one another, but by broader beliefs supporting conspiracy theories in general All that said, the guy that spliced those videos to make things appear different than they are is a complete asshole. Because, make no mistake, his videos are heavily edited, and largely taken out of context. | ||
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