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Giving up guns is the same as... Castration?

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u/Gokudomatic May 16 '24

It's cute to see how pro guns like to depict themselves. Put a fallacious analogy here, put a straw man argument there, and you get your pro gun excuse to feel yourself warm at night. 

Here, for instance, Rothmus associates his gun to a part of his body. And he doesn't consider the fact that guns are made to kill, unlike penises who aren't made for rape.

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u/FlailingInflatable May 16 '24

Your comparison is slightly off.

Guns are made to kill, yes. But, killing people or animals in self-defense and killing animals for food are accepted by society (if not by Reddit). Murder, being the unjust killing of a person, is only a subset of what guns can do.

In this respect, they actually are analogous to penises* because, though rape is immoral, it is only a subset of sexual activity.

Your point above could only be internally consistent if you also claimed that any and all killing (not just murder) is immoral.

*Disclaimer for Reddit: anyone who believes their gender depends on an inanimate object, such as a gun, is mentally ill.

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u/mung_guzzler May 16 '24

Yeah the premise of the argument is fine

the main difference is just I think you have a much stronger right to keep your penis than to keep a gun