HankT
State Researcher
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joshmmm wrote:
Yah, now we're finally making some progress...
Keep going.
joshmmm wrote:
HankT wrote:Actually, I think that most, not all,people have some difficulty in reading HankT's Postualate of Civilian Self-Defense....
For example, it doesn't say that a 145 lb. man shouldn't shoot a 325 lb. unarmed but crazed professional wrestler who is attacking him with discernible intent to cause death or severe bodily harm....
It just says that... well, here it is again:
It is a bad strategy to shoot an unarmed person.
Hmm, nowhere in there does this simple but powerful conceptualization does it say that a 145 lb. man shouldn't shoot a 325 lb. unarmed but crazed professional wrestler who is attacking him....
I blame our educational system. It has failed us in so many ways...
Postulates can be one of two things. 1. A claim which is always true and can't be false. 2. A place where you start from to continue a hypothetical because it is not an absolute, but a starting place...
Merriam Webster defines postulate as:
to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary : depend upon or start from the postulate of b : to assume as a postulate or axiom (as in logic or mathematics)
Yah, now we're finally making some progress...
Keep going.