Poking the Eye

The difference between a tickle and an incapacitation is the difference in location of the point of contact.  What I mean is this:  an extended index finger can engage the underarm area on another person and illicit a shrill of joy or it can engage their iris and render them blind.  This is not a formal indictment against gun control - that is to say, "it's not the weapon but how it's used", although I do fall on side of that watershed that is all for gun control...of course the kind of 'gun control' to which I refer is that which says "the steadier you hold your gun, with more control and finesse,the closer you will hit your target".  Rather, it is to make the overarching point that the same instrument, or matriculation of ideas, for that matter can be used for good or evil.  Something as innocuous as a toothpick can be used to remove debris between teeth and prevent disease of the periodontal variety or or cause disease by picking an infected scab.  Something as explosive and potentially dangerous as dynamite can be used to create perfectly designed carvings in the Black mountains of the foothills of South Dakota and leave traces of four presidents' faces, or it can be used to destroy entire buildings and lives, for that matter.  It is not the implement but the implement's use - and user - that make it extraordinary or dull, miraculous or deadly.  This holds true for logic itself.  Every geometry student should be able to use the simple methodology of logic to do proofs.  This is not a dull use of logic, necessarily, but rather a tedious one.  Logic (or actually,illogicality) may also be used to demonstrate that a certain class or demographic of people should be wiped off the map.  One should be careful if they're using logic in this matter as some in the past and present have done and are currently doing... They may just be poking God in the eye: " For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye--" (Zechariah 2:8).