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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHow possibly?
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    8 days ago

    I also hate the term privilege because it implies those people have something they shouldn’t have, i.e. they need to be brought down, when really it’s that other people have a disadvantage. This makes the ones labeled privileged defensive because it seems like an attack instead of a call for help.

    Everyone should be at least at the same level as the “privileged” ones.

    Edit: it seems I might not have been clear as the discussion below seems to perfectly encapsulate why I personally dislike the term privilege because of how it frames things. The majority of privileged people aren’t getting a leg up, they just don’t have the things dragging them down that underprivileged people do. Maybe an analogy will help:

    Imagine a grueling and difficult race everyone is forced to run. The actual distance is arbitrary and doesn’t matter, you just need to complete it. The starting line is a staggered mess with people starting forward and backwards from each other to varying degrees. Many of the people in the race rightly point out this is not fair and want the starting lines to at least be the same for everyone. Now, which do you think is more beneficial to having everyone agree/work to move the starting positions; saying the people in front need to move back, or that the people further back should be moved forward?









  • A 30.06 from roughly 150 yards away, from the front… would have zero chance of embedding itself into a collar bone.

    It would detonate it, shatter it, blow it apart.

    A 30.06 from 500 yards away will shatter the femur of a moose… there’s an order of magnitude more kinetic energy in a 30.06 than a 5.56 round.

    So, knowing nothing about 5.56 rounds but having shot a .30-06 at moose/deer/elk: in the 100-200 yard range the bullet will break a rib, travel through the lungs/heart/etc and then often exit the other side on a smaller animal (deer), or be sitting just inside the hide of a larger one (elk/moose).

    I have no opinions on the rest of it that’s just been my experience.