people need to status max so much more high status people saying "chasing status is bad" is such an effective way of keeping everyone below them literally the only reason why you care about a person you have not met is because they've done something publicly approved rant:

As a kid you’re anti-guns (guns are literally made to kill people, why should anyone have them!?) until you read about or live through enough stuff like this. - 1933 Nazi germany confiscates all firearms (found and collected using firearm registration records required by a 1928 law) - Consolidation of power by adolf hitler and complete suppression of political opponents - 1929 law in Soviet Union makes private gun ownership illegal - Jospeh Stalin implements “great purge” millions of people (inclusing political dissidents) arrested, exiled, and executed - 1949 Communist Party of China implements strict gun control - Mao Zedong enforces Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, over 40 million people die - Myanmar 1962, strict gun control laws enforced - the Junta establish authoritarian regime that lasts decades (marked ofc by severe repression and human rights abuses) - 1975 Khmer Rouge disarm civilians in Cambodia - Pol Pot carries out mass executions and atrocities from 1975 to 1979 - 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, new regime imposes strict gun control measures - Iranian government uses these laws to consolidate power and suppress political opposition, establishing authoritarian theocracy (ongoing) - Zimbabwe 1980, government led by Robert Mugabe enacts strict gun control measures - Regime becomes increasingly authoritarian, using the disarmament to suppress political opposition and maintain control - 1994, Rwandan government enforces strict gun control laws, limiting access to firearms for civilians - Rwandan Genocide results in deaths of ~800,000 Tutsis and Hutus, who had no way to defend themselves - 2012 “Control of Arms, Munitions, and Disarmament Law” in Venezuela - Increased authoritarian control and suppression of political opposition under Nicolás Maduro from 2013 to right now And bro I’m not even mentioning all of them