"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>> What you'd rather be tazered by a mean drunk without response than to
and dwayne replied:
>Hell yeah! What, you would? You'd blow somebody's kneecaps off if they
[...]
>Wow, I'm still boggled by your "shoot the kneecaps off" comment.
Somehow this exchanges neatly sums up a difference I detect between *some*
American extropians and *many* of the rest of us from other apparently
similar countries such as Oz (and maybe Sweden). Granted that Mikey's
remark is rhetorical overkill, still it's the kind of trigger-finger
fantasy (I hope!) that frightens and depresses people raised in slightly
different cultures.
shoot the bastards
>> kneecaps off?
>tasered you? Wow, what a monster.
(I'm still boggled, too.)
Damien Broderick