Please explain. We are “sheeple” because:

1. We don’t often murder each other.
2. Most of us live in cities.

or

3. Not many of us own guns.

Which is it, because those were the only assertions I made in my post.

Or maybe you inferred that we argue with facts instead of insults, and that makes us “sheeple.”

Got you... Random facts don't necessarily result in X conclusion reached with obvious bias. Yours was IMO an insult to legal, law abiding gun owners being related to big city murders by homicidal criminals, so back at you.

 

Got you... Random facts don't necessarily result in X conclusion reached with obvious bias. Yours was IMO an insult to legal, law abiding gun owners being related to big city murders by homicidal criminals, so back at you.

This is exactly why I didn’t state a conclusion.

 

This is exactly why I didn’t state a conclusion.

and the reason why I said one 'could'. Look, I could use random facts about the long history of blatant racism, redlining by race, racial bigotry, Anti-Semitism, etc in Mass to make conclusions about where I don't want to live, but I won't because they don't have a monopoly in this country on hate or lower crime rates.

 

I'm a Star Trek nerd so I envision the day where there is nothing to fight over.

nothing? there is a fight or battle in every single episode...

 

@Sherlock_Holmes...

holly crap...

 

nothing? there is a fight or battle in every single episode...

and likely certain death if you wear a Red Shirt on a mission.

 

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What about years 1900-2015? Or is that just since the hospital was first opened? Either way, this doesn't tell me anything about how kids acted back in the day.

 

This is all very interesting and I'll finish catching up on the topic later, but I just wanted to inform you all that to save my own sanity, in 1998 or there abouts, I chucked my TV out the window to never take up that waste of everything sacred, ever again.

 

nothing? there is a fight or battle in every single episode...

To be precise, there is nothing to fight over back on Earth. Captain Picard said it himself many times.

 

To be precise, there is nothing to fight over back on Earth. Captain Picard said it himself many times.

Death to Moby Dick, whoops, wrong ship.

 

there will always be fights. even if we do not have resources issue any more, some people will always be deranged, looking for challenge, encroach on other persons space, property or rights...

 

You'd have to look, suicide rates are increasing though, what they were fifty years ago I can't say, there might be data out there. The number of live streaming violent crimes is alarming, some kids/teens kill and even torture just so they can "out do" their rivals.

Self harm is likewise a popular topic these days due to the ability of cell phones to serve as live on-air cameras, it really is getting bad, very very bad.

I'm no so sure. People have been competing in everything imaginable since the dawn of time. Suicide is a tough one because life has always been hard.

If I was to realistically calculate either, I'd have to go back how many thousands of years?

Do you think they would have filmed Jesus' crucifixion if they had the tech? It's a bizarre thought but I think so!

 

This is all very interesting and I'll finish catching up on the topic later, but I just wanted to inform you all that to save my own sanity, in 1998 or there abouts, I chucked my TV out the window to never take up that waste of everything sacred, ever again.

I hope you cleaned up the mess!

"The first and hardest step to recovery is admitting you have a problem"

 

Someone should throw the kid out of a window.

Well, people chuck the TV out the window (in reality or as a metaphor) but just substitute their computer instead to waste time. Reductio ad absurdum.

 

I know of credible reports in Wall St, where hedge fund traders would throw Next Cube's out of windows in the 1980s.

Totally justified, Next was just a very expensive fad.

 

Good move, though its worth keeping one around and simply use it to watch DVDs or Youtube, there's still a great deal of superb educational and thought provoking stuff to watch.

I got two computer setups

Good move, though its worth keeping one around and simply use it to watch DVDs or Youtube, there's still a great deal of superb educational and thought provoking stuff to watch.

That's what my computer system is for. I am always educating myself.

 

Actually, I have two cathode ray TV's in storage. One for the VCR and one for my XT computer, but that's no big deal.