Reply #42: Good. It's the 21st C. equivalent of "putting phasers on stun"! [View All]

[Bonobo]

Good. It's the 21st C. equivalent of "putting phasers on stun"!

Anf don't give me that stuff about "needing to aim for body-mass" or you are asking to miss stuff cause I ain't buying -although I know it is the position most commonly presented by gun advocates.

Fact is, it presumes that the need for force is an "either/or" proposition when in fact it should be by degrees. A slow, fat man holding a knife but surrounded by police is not the same as a one-on-one fight with a man holding an uzi.

Now, to Captain Kirk and gang... when those guys put their phasers on stun, they didn't know if it would have any effect. After trying it and finding it ineffective, though, they would simply escalate their application of force by setting them to kill. THEY NEVER STARTED IN KILL! End of argument.

WWJKD
(What Would James Kirk Do?)