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Originally Posted by sexobon
sexobon: ... instead of enabling armed citizens to kill in the name of security, you enable doctors to kill in the name of convenience!
Happy Monkey: ... Trayvon Martin didn't ask to be "secured".
I used the concept of security referring to the person who did the shooting.
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Right. Zimmerman did the shooting. Zimmerman killed in the name of security. Treyvon Martin was killed by Zimmerman. Of course I
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turned "secured" into a euphemism for being shot, apparently just to make a flippant connection to euthanasia.
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Actually, you introduced the flippant between Treyvon Martin and euthanasia:
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Originally Posted by sexobon
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sexobon: ... Perhaps if he had, he'd still be alive just like the person who claims to have secured himself from him. Duh.
Here, I returned to using the concept of security in my original relevant context...
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( Zimmerman providing "security" for his neighborhood)
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... suggesting that if Trayvon Martin had asked Zimmerman (a neighborhood watch member) to protect [secure] him when they met, Trayvon Martin couldn't have been characterized as a threat and might still be alive today.
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If he'd done what? Approached the armed man who's been following him around and asked him for protection from... what? Again, what are you on about?