It seems that everyone wants to turn this issue, as well as many others, into guns vs. no guns. Jsm2 touched on a point that seems to make a great deal more sense. Applying UK or European standards to a country with an entirely different psychology is like prescribing Prozac to an aardvark. Therefore, it is the psychology that is the issue. Creating additional laws (remember, if the existing gun laws had been enforced in Columbine, no one at the school would have been shot anyway!) does nothing to address the source of this violence. It just wastes time and creates a false sense of security for the rest of the sheep.
I have to agree with several other posters in that Katz's rant seems a little overblown. It's only a movie fer crissakes. Why not celebrate "Give a geek kid a subversive book day" instead? There's plenty of them with far more scathing social commentary than South Park, and last I checked, the library wasn't carding.
It doesn't take AI to detroy the concept of free will. Samuel Clemens has already suggested that we ourselves are, basically, AI. Check this out: What is Man?
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It seems that everyone wants to turn this issue, as well as many others, into guns vs. no guns. Jsm2 touched on a point that seems to make a great deal more sense. Applying UK or European standards to a country with an entirely different psychology is like prescribing Prozac to an aardvark. Therefore, it is the psychology that is the issue. Creating additional laws (remember, if the existing gun laws had been enforced in Columbine, no one at the school would have been shot anyway!) does nothing to address the source of this violence. It just wastes time and creates a false sense of security for the rest of the sheep.
I have to agree with several other posters in that Katz's rant seems a little overblown. It's only a movie fer crissakes. Why not celebrate "Give a geek kid a subversive book day" instead? There's plenty of them with far more scathing social commentary than South Park, and last I checked, the library wasn't carding.
I thought he said, "let your focus become your reality"?
It doesn't take AI to detroy the concept of free will. Samuel Clemens has already suggested that we ourselves are, basically, AI. Check this out: What is Man?
You can also pick up the Onion in Boulder, CO. Anyone a fan of Herbert Kornfeld?