This got me thinking.

Started by Ghost, Wed 07/05/2014 05:48:51

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Andail

Quote from: Atelier on Thu 08/05/2014 12:20:38
I never understood this saying because the two aren't mutually exclusive, both guns and people kill people.

kill 1 |kɪl|
verb [ with obj. ]
1 cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing)

The person causes the trigger to be pulled which causes the bullet to fire which causes the death. The gun and the person are both part of the chain of causation. Substitute stuff into the formula and the same can be said for anything. People toast bread by putting them into toasters that toasts the bread.

I get the purpose of the saying, but a more accurate wording is "guns kill people, but people are at the start of the chain of causation".
But what came first, the gun or the person? We may never know.

Snarky

Bullets go in, bullets come out. You can't explain that!

Ghost

Quote from: Soxbrooker on Thu 08/05/2014 13:06:48
can ghosts use guns?

That, and they make awesome additions to racing tracks :=

Because drivers don't drive cars. Cars are driven by drivers. It's all in the drive, as long as your driver can display it.

Stupot

Programmers can't toast games without the proper drivers.
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CaptainD

Ghosts don't make your head hurt, Ghost's posts make your head hurt.

Babar

People don't people people. PEOPLE people people.
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Ghost

Quote from: Babar on Tue 13/05/2014 19:59:43
People don't people people. PEOPLE people people.

Soylent Green confirmed!

Adeel

And here I were: opening this thread, expecting some deep philosophy...

People don't get disappointed by expectations. Disappointment expects people.

Spoiler
See? I were a born philosopher! 8-)
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Mandle

Quote from: DoorKnobHandle on Wed 07/05/2014 19:38:08
Now where's janosbiro when you need him? I'm sure he could unravel this mystery with his enormous powers of 'phylosophy'!

Does that mean that roasters don't roast roastees, but roastees roast roasters?

Ghost

Quote from: Mandle on Fri 16/05/2014 18:03:32
Does that mean that roasters don't roast roastees, but roastees roast roasters?

Nah. Roadies rroast goat's toes. That's how it goes. You're referring to RollerToaster Tycoon, where toasts are trapped in a theme park.

Mandle

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Quote from: CaptainD on Tue 13/05/2014 19:48:23
Ghosts don't make your head hurt, Ghost's posts make your head hurt.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

selmiak

please analyze, when cheeses please the greases, do the seas ease the cheese when they terrorize precise trees? Or do fleas rather cheese the peas? or is peace just the demise before the cheese of john cleese will arise?

Baron

Quote from: selmiak on Sat 17/05/2014 03:50:24
please analyze, when cheeses please the greases, do the seas ease the cheese when they terrorize precise trees? Or do fleas rather cheese the peas? or is peace just the demise before the cheese of john cleese will arise?

Is this the Philosophy Thread or the Insult Sword Fighting Thread?  Whichever it is, can somebody please direct me to the Weird Foreign Toilet Thread?  Thanks.  ;)

Atelier


Baron


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