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Or why are there so many of them recently, anyway. So Anita Sarkeesian says "We seriously need to address connections between violence, sexism and toxic ideas of manhood before more boys and men commit more mass shootings." Well, I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with that, I can't quite wrap my head around it, in fact, so I'm posing the question. What's up with all the mass shootings and why [i]is[/i] it always a dude? Men are just more prone to violence it seems, I guess due to testosterone. There are probably about as many mentally unstable (talking the suicidal/homicidal status here) females as there are males, they're just less likely to say -blam!- it, I'm gonna get a gun and go to work. That one seems easy to me. The reason there have been so many shootings lately could be a direct consequence of the flaws in society, not that sexism isn't one of them, but is it the biggest one? Is it more directly responsible for people snapping and going pscyho than, say, prescribing mental patients narcotics and drugs that alter your brain chemistry instead of therapy designed to help them better the circumstances in their life that are holding them back? [b]I[/b] say not, what say you?
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Because sometimes a man has to be a man. There is nothing more primeval about masculinity than standing over your dead enemies. Read Fight Club.
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Even dealing to the death was legal until a the last century. Being a man means you have honor,and can stand up for yourself or other people, not just having a penis and testicles. A man is his actions.
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Dueling? I think it should still be legal if both parties agree to it, I'm a libertarian I don't think the government should tell people how to act, what to think, and what to feel. I agree that a man should stand up for what he believes is right but look at Gandhi, he stood up for what he believed in as much as anyone ever has. I'm not a pacifist, I believe in self defense but violence is too simple, it can be written off too easily. If you say that you believe in something and you're willing to get the shit kicked out of you for it or die for it that says a lot more than your willingness to violently resist over it.
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