Posted on 09/16/2013 9:11:20 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
MOSCOW An argument in southern Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant, the author of "Critique of Pure Reason," devolved into pure mayhem when one debater shot the other. A police spokeswoman in Rostov-on Don, Viktoria Safarova, said two men in their 20s were discussing Kant as they stood in line to buy beer at a small store on Sunday. The discussion deteriorated into a fistfight and one participant pulled out a small nonlethal pistol and fired repeatedly. The victim was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening. Neither person was identified. It was not clear which of Kant's ideas may have triggered the violence.
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Yet another reason to major in something other than philosophy.
I don’t think they reasoned this out.
I don’t think they reasoned this out.
lolz
I’m still trying to figure out “a nonlethal hand gun”.
Just imagining some of the Chicago gangs discussing Kant..before blowing each others head off over drugs.
must be very very small bullets.... or maybe it shot bb’s or something
Incidentally, I think 40 is about the ideal age to take up philosophy.
Before that, it is just vanity.
Of course after that, it can be vanity as well, but...it can also be wisdom if you approach it humbly AND rigorously.
Crazy
I only get violent when reading Hobbes
Kant is for sissies
Or discussing the metaphysics of Purple Drank.
Wait, I didn’t just say that
Something you'd almost expect to see in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
ANNIE: Anything you can do I can do better
......I can do anything better than you
FRANK: Nyet, you Kant
ANNIE: Da, I can
FRANK: Nyet, you Kant
ANNIE: Da, I can
FRANK: Nyet, you Kant
ANNIE: Da, I can, da, I can ... pow pow pow!
Kant WAS a sissy!
We know who won the debate. Bullet trumps.
I Kant get no satisfaction
That handgun would be in the possession of: a
1. blind person
2. paraplegic
3. dyed-in-the-wool Democrat Liberal pain-in-the-wazoo
4. REALLY, REALLY old person
5. MAYBE a man of the cloth
6. glutton being offered a bag of chips by anyone else in exchange for the handgun
Hey, there are LOTS more....unfortunately.
JR - in answer to your question - "How do you define madness/"
I'm thinking a post-structuralist rap throwdown between Jean "AK-47" Baudrillard and Michel "Li'l Mikey" Foucault. "Hey yo! Yo mama so fat she think Derrida is purple drank!" Could get very ugly.
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