it’s not the wheapons that kill people, but the people who use them.
There’s a level where that’s kind of true.
But consider the chicken. In the usual way of things, when two cocks meet they do some threat displays and likely one of them runs away. If not they fight each other a little and then likely one of them runs away.
If you strap razor blades to their feet and put them into a pen where they can’t run away then you have something you can sell tickets to. Except it’s illegal in this country. You could say “Razor blades don’t kill fighting cocks, other cocks do” but it wouldn’t be very true, now would it?
The people who strap on the razor blades convert a dominance ritual into a sort of ritual murder. The chickens just follow their instincts, never thinking out the consequences.
It would be possible to attach the trigger for a nuclear weapon to a cock so that when it killed its opponent the nuke would go off. We wouldn’t actually do that, but we could. And then you could say “Nukes don’t kill people. Roosters kill people.” It would be just as true as the current version.
it’s not the wheapons that kill people, but the people who use them.
There’s a level where that’s kind of true.
But consider the chicken. In the usual way of things, when two cocks meet they do some threat displays and likely one of them runs away. If not they fight each other a little and then likely one of them runs away.
If you strap razor blades to their feet and put them into a pen where they can’t run away then you have something you can sell tickets to. Except it’s illegal in this country. You could say “Razor blades don’t kill fighting cocks, other cocks do” but it wouldn’t be very true, now would it?
The people who strap on the razor blades convert a dominance ritual into a sort of ritual murder. The chickens just follow their instincts, never thinking out the consequences.
It would be possible to attach the trigger for a nuclear weapon to a cock so that when it killed its opponent the nuke would go off. We wouldn’t actually do that, but we could. And then you could say “Nukes don’t kill people. Roosters kill people.” It would be just as true as the current version.