{"id":1802,"date":"2012-09-15T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-09-15T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:10:24","slug":"anti-gun-fundamentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Anti-gun Fundamentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I mentioned<\/a> that I listen to audio books when I walk the dog or run. I finished up Purple Cow and moved on to Seth Godin’s most famous work, Tribes<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

I’m about three quarters of the way through it, but the other day I heard him say this:<\/p>\n

\nA fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.<\/p>\n

Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us<\/a>\"\"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does that not sound exactly<\/i> like Joan Peterson, the CSGV, and ubu52? Or any other virulently anti-gun person you’ve ever met?<\/p>\n

Joe talks about their inability to distinguish between truth and falsity. Weerd talks about how he was an anti until he came across facts that didn’t back up his beliefs.<\/a><\/p>\n

He changed his beliefs to match reality, not reality to match his beliefs. He was not an anti-gun fundamentalist, and once he examined the facts he became an advocate for the opposite side!<\/p>\n

Why? Because we hold the only position that a rational mind can hold: an inanimate object cannot be evil. Someone who would commit murder won’t be deterred by the lesser crime of gun possession. There is such a thing as righteous violence.<\/p>\n

You can’t talk with those people. You can’t reason with them, because they happily discard facts that don’t support their narrative. Like the guy said to Joe, “I don’t believe your facts<\/i>.” <\/p>\n

The only reason to engage them at all is not to convince them<\/i>, but to convince other people<\/i> that facts are greater than emotion. Linoge<\/a> and Miguel<\/a> regularly engage these folks on Twitter for exactly that reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I mentioned that I listen to audio books when I walk the dog or run. I finished up Purple Cow and moved on to Seth Godin’s most famous work, Tribes. I’m about three quarters of the way through it, but the other day I heard him say this: A fundamentalist is a person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}