Battletard wrote:
Stick to the issue, Aestu. You do this quite a lot. You and I agree fundamentally on the subject matter, don't make this about Usd..or anyone else.
It kind of is, though. American politics and society are deadlocked in large part because so much of the dialogue is mired in people's image issues. There's really no having an honest dialogue without engaging that fact. Blame the American Dream, I guess.
Jubbergun wrote:
Revolvers are great, because they don't jam. They also aren't chock full of rounds, so owning/using one means you need to learn to stress identification and accuracy. If you're wearing them on your hip, you don't even have to worry about concealed carry, and if you have a bandoleer you can pretend you're Chewbacca.
I'd be willing to accept revolvers as a decent compromise between how society should work and the reality of American values and life. They're good personal defense weapons because they are reliable, accurate and powerful, but you can't really use one to commit murder all that much more effectively than with a knife.
Jubbergun wrote:
Happiness is a pretty good measure of whether or not you're living your values. You're going to be unhappy if you're not living up to your own expectations. If you're doing what you believe you should be doing, you're going to be happy (generally speaking). If you're doing everything you think is "right," and doing it well, but you're unhappy, maybe it's because you don't really believe in what's "right" and it's not what's "right" for you.
Putting on my dimestore psychiatrist hat, the fact that a certain someone doesn't prioritize his own happiness seems to me to be a sign that he knows he's not living up to his own standards in a way that reflects his real internal values.
I can agree with this. There is, of course, the corollary possibility that I simply aim higher.
