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Which is the greater threat?

Which is a greater threat to your life?


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Goobieman

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You are in a locked room, sitting on a long bench.

On one end of that bench, in an open, unlocked box, is a loaded revolver.

On the other end of that bench, there is a HIV+ homosexual/lesbian (depending on your gender)

Which threatens your life the most?



Can someone move this to the POLL section?
 
I don't get it.

Is the person gonna up and attack me and possibly give me HIV?
Or are they gonna grab the pistol and attack me?
Or is the loaded pistol gonna up and shoot me?
 
What's the difference between a homosexual and a lesbian again?
 
I don't get it.
Is the person gonna up and attack me and possibly give me HIV?
Or are they gonna grab the pistol and attack me?
Or is the loaded pistol gonna up and shoot me?
Of those three, one is impossible. The other two are not.
Does that make it more clear?
 
Umm
How long am I going to be locked in this room? Is this a lab experiment for 45 minutes, or am I in prison for 45 years?

What exactly are you getting at? If you're suggesting what I think you are, you should be ashamed.
 
Umm
How long am I going to be locked in this room? Is this a lab experiment for 45 minutes, or am I in prison for 45 years?
Of those 2 things, by its very nature, is a greater threat to your life. Nothing else regarding the scenario matters (save that the "locked room" implies that no one else will enter it).
 
Of those 2 things, by its very nature, is a greater threat to your life. Nothing else regarding the scenario matters (save that the "locked room" implies that no one else will enter it).

Are you suggesting homosexuals are rapists?
 
Are you suggesting homosexuals are rapists?
Ask yourself these questions:
What might the homosexual decide to do?
What might the gun decide to do?
 
I voted revolver, because I think it is more dangerous that there may be a malfunction and/or the trigger will be pulled back by the box somehow, than the chance of any person homosexual or not being an innate rapist.
 
Ask yourself these questions:
What might the homosexual decide to do?
What might the gun decide to do?

I'd be a lot more worried about the other person shooting me with the gun than raping me and giving me HIV.

Why does the person in this example need to be a homosexual, if your point is about guns? Just couldn't resist getting in some gay-baiting while you were at it?
 
I'd be a lot more worried about the other person shooting me with the gun than raping me and giving me HIV.
I dont recall saying anything about rape or trasmitting HIV.
Why do you assume that's the threat?
Are you operating from a stereotype here?
Why can't the threat from him be something else?

Why does the person in this example need to be a homosexual, if your point is about guns? Just couldn't resist getting in some gay-baiting while you were at it?
I'm -far- more creative than that.
 
This is retarded.

What is the point here?
Who says any of them have to be a threat?

In that case... why don't I just fall into your little "traps" you like to set..

No, in fact, I'll appease you in a different way.

I still say that the question cannot be answered by the poll choices alone.

Because I could vote both.

I have three options.

I would take the gun and kill the homosexual. (As per your 3rd poll choice)

I would take the gun and kill myself (then the gun would be a greater threat). Because my staunch conservative self could not stand having to live in a small locked room with a "raving rapist homosexual with aids".

I would take the gun and kill the homosexual, and then kill myself.
 
I dont recall saying anything about rape or trasmitting HIV.
Why do you assume that's the threat?
Are you operating from a stereotype here?
Why can't the threat from him be something else?

What other reason would you POSSIBLY have for mentioning that this person was homosexual and had HIV? If you were suggesting some other threat, you would have just said "a person" instead of "a homosexual with HIV."
 
Uh, the fact that I'm in a locked room and will probably starve to death.
 
This has got to top PTSDKid on the retardation scale. What I think is most dangerous is how homo obsessed goober must be to dwell on such asinine polls.
 
You are in a locked room, sitting on a long bench.

On one end of that bench, in an open, unlocked box, is a loaded revolver.

On the other end of that bench, there is a HIV+ homosexual/lesbian (depending on your gender)

Which threatens your life the most?



Can someone move this to the POLL section?

Neither unless you introduce actions taken be the other person in the room.

The thing that is the biggest threat is whomever put me in that room.
 
I dont get it. Apparently to Goobie homosexuals with HIV/AIDS are a emminent threat if you are locked in a room with them. What about heterosexuals with HIV/AIDS? I think it's silly for a mature person to even try and insinuate that the threat posed by a person with a decease such as HIV/AIDS is heightened by their sexuality. On the other hand what else can you expect from homophobes?
 
I'm just waiting with baited breadth for what I am sure will be the deep and profound lesson to be learned from this hypothetical.
 
What other reason would you POSSIBLY have for mentioning that this person was homosexual and had HIV? If you were suggesting some other threat, you would have just said "a person" instead of "a homosexual with HIV."
Why, to see how the liberals would react to the question, of course.

The choice of 'the greater threat' is between an inanimite object and a person.
Is the person ALWAYS more of a thrrat than the inanimite object?
A rational person will always say 'yes', as an inanimite object cannot act on its own, while a person can -- that is, the person, can, in and of himself, hurt you, the revolver will always just sit there. Forever. And do nothing. Ever.

Ask yourself these questions:
What might the homosexual decide to do?
What might the gun decide to do?

Right? Follow? Or is this too tough? I can slow down...

Now, liberals say they are rational, that they are reasonable, and their positions all come from knowledge and logic. Given that, their response SHOULD be "the homosexual", every time, because the homosexual is a person and the gun in inanimite. But....

Iits plain from this thread that this is not the case

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think it is more dangerous that there may be a malfunction and/or the trigger will be pulled back by the box somehow,
The box is going to pull the trigger? :shock:

Hautey, rather than answer the question, attacks the irrelvancies in the given and avoids the question entirely.

Thats right -- attacks the irrelevancies. A rational person would limmediately see that the fact that the guy is a homosexual, in the context of this scenario, is utterly irrelevant.

Caine moves quiclky to the ridiculous, while ignoring the givens and attacking the irrelevancies in the given.

Kandahar makes wild assumptions about the given, and avoids the question

Jallman -- bless his overtaxed little mind -- goies right for the poersonal attacks agianst me, and doesnt answer the question.

And Iremon, as always, says nothing of any importance, and again as always, can be safely ignored.

NONE of the people noted above -- all supposedly rational, intelligent, reasonable, logical people (at least, thats how they like view themselves) actually answer the question -- a question that has but one clear cut, unarguable answer -- that the person is the bigger threat.

Now, why do they do that?

Because their fear of having to agree that a homosexual is inherently more dangerous than a gun overrides their ability to reason. They are SO hung up on whatever their liberal dogma tells them about homozexuals (and guns) that they cannot bring themse;ves to agree that the homosexual is the threat.

Thats not it? then what is it?

Would they readily agree that a member of he KKK or the Aryan Nation is more of a threat than the gun? In an instant. But a homosexual? Not a -single person- immeditaely agreed that the homosexual is more dangerous.

What's ths mean?

You people are a TON sadder than I thought -- you get a chance to show how reasonable and rational and logical you are, and you completely blow it. Its pretty darn sad that your ability to reason is so overwhelmed by your sensitivities and your dogma You should be ahsamed of yourselves. :doh
 
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Well this thread went no where fast.
 
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And Iremon, as always, says nothing of any importance, and again as always, can be safely ignored.

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Yay! I won Boogieman's poll!
 
Because their fear of having to agree that a homosexual is inherently more dangerous than a gun overrides their ability to reason. They are SO hung up on whatever their liberal dogma tells them about homosexuals (and guns) that they cannot bring themse;ves to agree that the homosexual is the threat.

I dont get it. The homosexual is the greater threat because you say it is? If I was a serial killer trapped in a room with a homosexual and there was a gun in the room. Would I be the more dangerous individual? Or would the homosexual still remain more dangerous? Does the hypothetical assume that homosexuals are rabbid individuals waiting to kill anybody locked in a room with them? Does it assume that I do not pose a threat to the homosexual?
 
Goobieman said:
Why, to see how the liberals would react to the question, of course.

Hmm. That sounds a lot like trolling.


Would they readily agree that a member of he KKK or the Aryan Nation is more of a threat than the gun? In an instant. But a homosexual? Not a -single person- immeditaely agreed that the homosexual is more dangerous.?

Because the very premise of this question is moronic. What exactly does this prove?

Goobieman, which do you think is more dangerous: An African-American veteran, or an abortion clinic?
 
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