Most people don’t hold logically consistent sets of values, and that’s ok. There’s always going to be things that you think make sense on a social scale, but when the individual case is raised it feels wrong.

The key is being honest with yourself when it happens and try to understand if it makes one of your positions wrong (or both).

How do you know they’re unloaded?

I agree it’s about power, and people get hopped up on feeling that power.

However, please stay the fuck away from any protests. You’re likely to get other people killed brandishing guns whether they are loaded or not.

How many missile defence systems do you own?

You can find something interesting without needing to own it.

Interesting how OP talked about him killed with your his weapon, and you spun it around to you killing someone else.

Which do you think is more likely if you get in a bar brawl?

Except that’s not true.

An imperial fluid ounce is 1⁄20 of an imperial pint, 1⁄160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL.

A US customary fluid ounce is 1⁄16 of a US liquid pint and 1⁄128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.

A US food labeling fluid ounce is exactly 30 mL.

So we have 28.4g, 29.6g or 30g of water. An ounce is 28.3g (closest to the imperial measures and neither of the US ones, despite the ounce being common to imperial and US systems)

Nobody is saying to you that blocking shouldn’t be available. They are saying to you that blocking large numbers of people to create a bubble is harmful to you and the wider community.

Hence blocking people who agree with a certain post is going too far. The action is too heavy handed for the “crime”. It would be a harmful feature. It’s"shooting people in the head for laughing at an edgy joke" levels of heavy handedness.

…because if you stop listening to other opinions you end up in a divided society that has no way of healing.

It’s an issue for society.

…but in his mind his political opponents aren’t people with different points of view. They’re stupid people who hold the exaggerated position you laid out without a hint of irony.

Define “public”.

Publicly available is not the same as public domain. You should respect the copyright, especially of small creators. I’m of the opinion that an ML model is a derivative work, and so if you’ve trawled every website under the sun for data to feed your model you’ve violated copyright.

Patron Saints often have little connection to the country that holds them.

The rest of the UK saints…

• St George (England) was a Roman soldier In Greece
• St Andrew (Scotland) was an apostle of jesus in Galilee.
• St David (Wales) was actually Welsh and and a Bishop of the Catholic Church.