The entire point of stating that scalability of intercession is time-sensitive was that it incorporates and addresses all these points. Top-down punishment after the fact, combined with bottom-up culture before it, is the only scalable system that limits our self-tyranny.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
I'd be interested to know what level of weapon you would draw the line at people being allowed to own, and your reasoning for this.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
This line of inquiry is fallacious. It’s not a univariate equation dependent upon weapon lethality. I’m not going to engage a line of reasoning artificially constructed to stack the deck. What word constitutes hate speech?
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
It's a valid question because we're talking about policy here. I am simply asking you to be more specific about the kind of policy you would favour.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
It’s highly contingent and path-dependent. There’s not a universally applicable answer, which is why most people’s knee-jerk responses do more harm than good when dealing with complex systems. But as a thought experiment...
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Replying to @MattPirkowski @G_S_Bhogal
Call X the saturation of weapon ownership. Call Y the lethality of said weapon. Call Z the probability that the weapons will be used in attempts at confiscation. (1-(xy))/z seems like a decent heuristic for success, and therefore whether it’s pragmatic to attempt confiscation.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
That seems like a pretty fanciful policy, heh. How would you possibly measure Y and Z?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Far less fanciful than sweeping generalizations without even conceptualizing the tradeoffs.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
Well, as you know, real-world policy itself requires sweeping generalisations. Nuance at the individual level is unenforceable due to limited time and resources. I believe that guns designed for hunting should be allowed for licensed people, but not semi- or fully-automatic.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @MattPirkowski
Keep also in mind that a discussion from scratch about ideal gun policy is much different than the question about what new laws in the U.S. could move us in given directions.
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Yes, the talk of ideal gun policy illustrates the desired direction for current gun legislation to move in. I don't believe for one minute that my policy proposals could be enacted any time soon.
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