RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 22:10:14 -0800 

 

 

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On 11 January 2015 at 15:50, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:

When people criticise others' faiths, firstly it hurts others feeling making 
the criticism fall on deaf ears.

 

>>When people criticise others' faiths, it's more than feelings that get hurt.

 

Have you seen the cartoons… that went beyond criticizing or poking fun at 
someone else’s faith… the portrayal of the prophet (for those of that faith) is 
obscene, insulting, gratuitously degrading in overt sexual manner meant purely 
to offend. It has no redeeming quality to it. They published a stream of 
disgusting bigoted religious, ethnic and racial stereotypes; not just a single 
time – it was that papers bread and butter  -- including such gems as a 
stereotypical portrayal of pregnant African woman (with exaggerated racially 
offensive features and fat post rape bellies) with the caption casually and 
cruelly calling them welfare mothers. That is just offensive to me, in the 
fucking extreme. It is pornographically ugly racist & sexist hate speech to 
portray those underage victims like that – IMO.

I defend their right of free speech in the same manner as I defend the right of 
the KKK or Nazi skinheads to march. Free speech is only free as long as it 
extends to even the most obnoxious hate groups (including the racist newspaper 
Charlie Hebdo)… Free speech extends to racists, fascists, sectarian, 
nationalist, and ethnocentric bigots. I abhor their message, yet support their 
right to speech *on principal* -- even though they would and are doing their 
best to take away my freedom of speech.

But there is nothing noble or ennobling about Charlie Hebdo, or the hateful 
racist people who made a living producing and disseminating such racist filth 
and ethnic hatred. The person I feel sorry for is that poor on duty cop, who 
got wasted. As for the editor and staff they got the Darwin Award as far as I 
am concerned. Fuck them, they were fucking racist assholes who did their best 
to make this world uglier and bring it down to their level. 

The Takfiri Salafist brainwashed assholes who did this are also exemplars of 
the same disease, coming from a different direction. Nor am I sad that they are 
dead either. 

I abhor and condemn their actions, and don’t think anybody should die for 
expressing their thoughts – even if those thoughts are repugnant racist crap 
like Charlie Hebdo excelled at sullying the earth with. But in the same breath, 
I find nothing, even remotely admirable in the ugly stereotyping ethnic hatred 
that was their staple fare.

Nor do I mourn their loss, they did their level best to piss off 1.2 billion 
people on this planet and eventually some really pissed off violent crazies – 
from the group their hate speech targeted – took matters into their own 
murderous hands. 

It also would have been much preferable if the terrorists had been captured 
alive, so they could have been tried for their crimes like common criminals. 

-Chris

 

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