On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:03:40PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: > I think people naturally take some of the topics you choose to lampoon > very seriously. People rarely think bashing their belief system is > funny. If something offends, why continue to do it?
Now that's a silly question. Obviously, virtually everything offends _someone_, and "important" topics are more likely to offend then trivial ones. I hope you don't mean that I shouldn't discuss certain topics just because it might offend someone. Perhaps you are implying that important topics should always be treated without satire. Even if your implication, that doing so would not offend people, were true, I would still disagree with this. But I don't think that implication is true anyway, many people would still be offended even without satire. Are you really suggesting that people should limit their satire to trivial issues? No more political cartoons? Saturday Night Live completely neutered? No dramatic satire about anything important? -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
