On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Ryan Waldon wrote: > The Holocaust didn't happen in the UK, did it? Note that the > countries where denial is a crime, were essentially "ground-zero" > for the Holocaust. I'd imagine that would give those governments > (and citizens) a very different perspective on the issue.
But there is a question of the direction of causality. It does seem reasonable that a society that is more tolerant of the occasional whack job will also be more tolerant of those who depart from the norm in terms of religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or what have you. -- The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
