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Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - DeusxMac - 01-16-2024 Smote wrote: Should we, can we, accept that theories on criminology and arms from 260 years ago* are, without exception, completely applicable and viable over two centuries later? That seems self-servingly simplistic. *almost three decades BEFORE the 2nd Amendment Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - jdc - 01-16-2024 Smote wrote: The problem is, no one knows how. Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - hal - 01-16-2024 Speedy wrote: Ban private ownership. Confiscate those guns out there now. Repeal the 2nd. this has ALWAYS been the obvious answer Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - Racer X - 01-16-2024 hal wrote: Ban private ownership. Confiscate those guns out there now. Repeal the 2nd. this has ALWAYS been the obvious answer because countless studies have proven civilian fireams ownership causes poverty and ignorance? :RollingEyesSmiley5: And when THAT doesn't work, you start taking away knives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuC5qXfUbMA Yes, taking away KNIVES! And when people are still uneducated and poor, you take away sticks. Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - DeusxMac - 01-16-2024 Smote wrote: Reductio ad absurdum - argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction. Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - Tiangou - 01-17-2024 Smote wrote: Thomas Jefferson's response in his Commonplace Book: "False idee de utilita." (False ideas of utility.) Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - Racer X - 01-17-2024 Tiangou wrote: Thomas Jefferson's response in his Commonplace Book: "False idee de utilita." (False ideas of utility.) It wasn't a "response" it was the way of highlighting back then. "A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniencies, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, and dares say to reason, `Be thou a slave’; who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it." The next lines are the ones about disarming the lawful. Jefferson frequently QUOTED Becarria, and owned a copy of his book in the original Italian, as did several other of the Founding Fathers. So much so, that many mistakenly think Jefferson said that quote, and not Becarria. https://www.zebrafactcheck.com/quote-check-jefferson-or-beccaria/ https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2566&context=plr "II. BECCARIA’S IDEAS WERE KNOWN, DISCUSSED, AND TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE FOUNDERS Beccaria’s work was widely read in America during the Founding period.16 As James Madison said, Beccaria hit “the zenith of his fame as a philosophical legislator” when the American Founders were contemplating revolution and the new government.17 Not only were many ordinary American colonists familiar with Beccaria’s writing in the 1760s, 70s, and 80s,18 but the Founders, as members of the educated class, were especially knowledgeable about his work.19 The first four American presidents all knew of and engaged with his ideas,20 with John Adams using a quote from On Crimes and Punishments in his closing argument at the Boston Massacre trials21 and Thomas Jefferson recording no fewer than twenty-six of the book’s passages for his own reference.22 Outside the presidential circle, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Lee, Pennsylvania publisher William Bradford, Benjamin Rush, John Hancock, and Josiah Quincy, Jr. among others, also reported being influenced by Beccaria’s treatise.23 It would have been unlikely for an educated late eighteenth-century man with an interest in law and political philosophy to have been unaware of Beccaria, so firm was his foothold in the world of Enlightenment scholarship.24 Across the ocean in Europe, William Blackstone was instantly captivated by Beccaria’s treatise.25 Blackstone cited Beccaria more than any other source in his 1769 volume of Commentaries on the Laws of England,26 thereby introducing Beccaria’s writing to a wide, new Anglo-American audience.27 Through Blackstone, Beccaria’s work spread rapidly. Jeremy Bentham was similarly taken by Beccaria,28 and perhaps his greatest champion was Voltaire, to whom “no single Enlightenment figure” was more inspiring.29 Voltaire even wrote a commentary on On Crimes and Punishments featured in foreign-language editions of the treatise.30 In short, Beccaria was a key part, if not the centerpiece, of the conversation on law and criminology in Enlightenment circles, including American revolutionary circles, when the United States was founded." It keeps going on. "It is difficult to understand the Framers’ mindset on criminal law while drafting our founding documents unless one appreciates what they learned from Beccaria. Beccaria’s ideas were being discussed and debated when the Continental Congress met; James Madison included On Crimes and Punishments in a list of recommended reading for the Congress’s members.41 Later, the Pennsylvania Gazette, one of Philadelphia’s most-read newspapers, published long excerpts of the treatise in the 1780s that many delegates to the Constitutional Convention would have read.42 One study found that approximately one out of every thirty citations to major Enlightenment thinkers during the 1780s, when the Constitution was drafted, was to Beccaria.43 Therefore, it is little wonder that Madison is considered to have been “a student of Beccaria” when he drafted the Bill of Rights44 and that, more generally, the Framers are considered to have been “profoundly influenced” by Beccaria’s work while crafting the Constitution.45 At every step during the Founding period, Beccaria’s treatise appeared, offering guiding principles and substantive ideas that would become codified into American law." Re: Do NOT help anyone, really - Tiangou - 01-19-2024 Smote wrote: ... Wow! What a panic attack you had to spew that stuff. Contextually, Jefferson was clearly commenting on the PASSAGE THAT HE QUOTED. |