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Originally posted by Cube Inmate@Sep 13 2004, 05:11 PM
Guns don't kill people...people kill people 
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I had to do a study in my lameo "Information Technology and Society" class, where we tried to figure out if Guns were inherently neutral or not. I mean, a gun is just a hunk of metal, with no desire to kill anyone. People technically DO kill people, placing the blame entirely in their hands.
Of course, a gun is only value-neutral (not bad or good) if no one knows what it does. If you don't know what a gun is, you can't shoot someone w/ it (or at least, you'd probably shoot yourself well before then). The gist is that if you make an object that already has a specific, well known use w/in society, then that object is no longer value-neutral, and, in fact, it is well known that guns _will_ be used to kill people, probably Americans.
Super-interesting debate though, I'm sure there are good arguments that suggest guns ARE value-neutral. Lets hear 'em
