Yeah, I totally use my training hammer to be prepared to use my real hammer when the time is right. I also have a set of training screw drivers to be prepared when I need to take my computer apart for cleaning. And to be proficient with the air canister I have a training canister.
I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.
Your individual experience may be sensible for your specific scenario, but it’s not sensible for the vast majority of gun owners.
So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes. As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.
It might be sensible for a BSDM practitioner to build a sex dungeon, it doesn’t mean a sex dungeon is sensible for everyone having sex.
Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)
Edit: In case it’s not clear I’m approaching this as a semi-friendly conversation.
I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.
Aren’t you missing your analogy of getting a separate tool just to train? I too have different hammers for different jobs, but I don’t have an extra set of hammers just because I love hammering so much and neither do you.
So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes.
No, because what is sensible for the individual might not be sensible for a group of people and what might be sensible for a small group of people might not be sensible for the larger group. If we take your argument, which is that what is sensible for one is sensible for all then it should be sensible for everyone to spend a few grand on setting up a home server to have all the services big tech provides at your home so your data is actually yours. So why isn’t everyone doing “the sensible” thing? Because for most people it’s not sensible because they don’t have the technical know-how how to set something like that up, they don’t care to keep it running, they don’t care to backup their data and they don’t care to spend money on something they feel they don’t need.
As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.
Do you really want to go down the statistics route? For starters, 16 million is less than 5% of the American population. I couldn’t find a credible number of gun owners but that percentage would be bound to go up significantly considering how marginal it is for the entire American population I’ll give you that. But there’s a caveat and that’s hunting itself. By far the most popular game to hunt is deer, which is about half of all the hunts, and a third of the hunters don’t even use a modern firearm. So not only does that 16 million drop to 10-11 million hunters with modern firearms, half of them are getting by with just a single hunting rifle. Now for the multiple game hunters we’re below 2% of the entire American population and that’s under the assumption that the whole 100% of people within that 2% regularly hit the shooting range to justify owning a separate set of firearms.
Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)
I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with a sex dungeon. I said that despite it being sensible for someone practicing BDSM it’s not sensible for the vast majority of people for the similar reason everyone doesn’t have a home server, they don’t know how to set it up, they don’t have the space to set it up, they don’t want to maintain it and they don’t want to spend money on it when they can just use the bed/couch/floor/whatever. What might be sensible for a BDSM practitioner is not sensible for everyone having sex.
I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.
So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes. As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.
Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)
Edit: In case it’s not clear I’m approaching this as a semi-friendly conversation.
Aren’t you missing your analogy of getting a separate tool just to train? I too have different hammers for different jobs, but I don’t have an extra set of hammers just because I love hammering so much and neither do you.
No, because what is sensible for the individual might not be sensible for a group of people and what might be sensible for a small group of people might not be sensible for the larger group. If we take your argument, which is that what is sensible for one is sensible for all then it should be sensible for everyone to spend a few grand on setting up a home server to have all the services big tech provides at your home so your data is actually yours. So why isn’t everyone doing “the sensible” thing? Because for most people it’s not sensible because they don’t have the technical know-how how to set something like that up, they don’t care to keep it running, they don’t care to backup their data and they don’t care to spend money on something they feel they don’t need.
Do you really want to go down the statistics route? For starters, 16 million is less than 5% of the American population. I couldn’t find a credible number of gun owners but that percentage would be bound to go up significantly considering how marginal it is for the entire American population I’ll give you that. But there’s a caveat and that’s hunting itself. By far the most popular game to hunt is deer, which is about half of all the hunts, and a third of the hunters don’t even use a modern firearm. So not only does that 16 million drop to 10-11 million hunters with modern firearms, half of them are getting by with just a single hunting rifle. Now for the multiple game hunters we’re below 2% of the entire American population and that’s under the assumption that the whole 100% of people within that 2% regularly hit the shooting range to justify owning a separate set of firearms.
I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with a sex dungeon. I said that despite it being sensible for someone practicing BDSM it’s not sensible for the vast majority of people for the similar reason everyone doesn’t have a home server, they don’t know how to set it up, they don’t have the space to set it up, they don’t want to maintain it and they don’t want to spend money on it when they can just use the bed/couch/floor/whatever. What might be sensible for a BDSM practitioner is not sensible for everyone having sex.