▲ 548 ▼ Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster (abcnews.go.com) submitted 2 years ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 211 comments fedilink hide all child comments A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year
[–] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) They did, right here. a civilized country where you have to assume everyone has a gun. One of these things is not like the other permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Are you trolling, or are you arguing on the level of a three year old? Words have meanings. They don't necessarily have one single meaning, but generally words only make sense in the context of commonly-understood definitions. If I make up a new definition, it's not useful to use it, as long as other people don't use it. Now, I can argue that the sky is blurple, and I'm fully correct if I define blurple to be the color of the sky. But you will notice that this sentence doesn't hold any meaning as long as blurple isn't a commonly understood definition. You're free to show that loose gun laws are commonly understood to be an argument against something being a civilized society. But until you do that, you're doing what I said earlier: just circlejerking with neither funny nor useful descriptions. Do you understand now? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Are you trolling, or are you arguing on the level of a three year old? Words have meanings. They don't necessarily have one single meaning, but generally words only make sense in the context of commonly-understood definitions. If I make up a new definition, it's not useful to use it, as long as other people don't use it. Now, I can argue that the sky is blurple, and I'm fully correct if I define blurple to be the color of the sky. But you will notice that this sentence doesn't hold any meaning as long as blurple isn't a commonly understood definition. You're free to show that loose gun laws are commonly understood to be an argument against something being a civilized society. But until you do that, you're doing what I said earlier: just circlejerking with neither funny nor useful descriptions. Do you understand now? permalink fedilink source parent