On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:19 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/16/2015 10:14 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:42 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/15/2015 7:33 PM, PGC wrote: >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 8:54:40 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote: >>> >>> A fair question. >>> >> >> I'm not so sure about that. The question presupposes ironically that >> violence is a justified response to insult. >> >> >> No, it just asks what distinguish two superficially similar cases, one in >> which a cartoon insulted Islam and one which insulted four other major >> religions, which had very different responses. I'd bet that the people >> that created it at The Onion suppose that violence is NOT justified by an >> insult. >> > > Hence the word "ironically". > > If you want to believe that the cartoon was created out of pure innocence > and curiosity of creative staff at the Onion, that is your choice. > > This doesn't bar us from questioning content and relate that to current > events with extra grain of salt. I can't consume this pap otherwise, with > sincere apologies to creative at the onion. Not my taste. We should aspire > to better. PGC - Armchair Colonel > > > Then why don't you? > > I do. It's my job, mucking around with wires on a wooden box for entertainment and education. But I make no PR here because that's off topic commercial interest and thus spam. PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
