The Glade 4.0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html


Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony.

In the face of the violence that frequently results from anti-religious expression, some world leaders seem to be losing their patience with free speech. After a video called “Innocence of Muslims” appeared on YouTube and sparked violent protests in several Muslim nations last month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that “when some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others’ values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected.”

Much more at link.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Saying something offensive to Muslims is irresponsible and unjustifiable - no different than yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

Hopes this is sarcastismistic.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Yes. However, there's enough data to know that if you say something offensive, people will die.

For that reason, I wouldn't make an offensive movie. I don't feel like being XXXXX (couldn't bring myself to say the word "responsible") for people dying.

So what does that mean? Their tactics are working?

That means that Christians and Atheists need to start rioting over everything Muslim religious leaders say if we want to be taken seriously and protected against Jihad.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

We need to accept that Jihad has been declared, and respond accordingly.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.