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"If a thing is designed to kill you, it is, by definition, bad design."

Guns aren't designed to kill you. They are designed to eliminate others whom pose a threat to you. If it were you vs another gunman, you would praise superior design if it saved your life.

"You can’t separate an object’s function from it’s intent."

You most certainly can. First I was coming up with examples to enumerate here but now this sentence is hardly making logical sense to me when I read it.



They are designed to eliminate others whom pose a threat to you.

   God made men
   Sam Colt made them equal
Hyperbole, but I love it.




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