No doubt, but the KKK hangs black people from trees
Where are they doing that? Where have they done that within the life of most people under forty?
whereas this is a CARTOON EXHIBIT (sorry for the volume) so that analogy doesn't hold.
That's like calling that Klan march a constitutional. Sure, people are walking a lot, but if you think that's the point...
And that's the point of the analogy: the march would inspire hostility in people in a way the simple knowledge that somewhere hate filled whites were wearing bedsheets and longing for their good old days wouldn't. So we've gone beyond the exercise to the point of the exercise.
I wrote: I'd rather have a world where as few people are killed as is reasonably possible without anyone having to surrender their own rights to manage it.
And these two didn't want to surrender their rights to................not have their profit criticized.
It isn't about what two nut jobs thought was reasonable. I expect the stupid guy to jump off the cliff with enough people cheering. It's the people cheering who know some nut job is likely to jump because of it that I'm speaking to.
We can't stop people from being their own worst enemies. That doesn't mean we should go out of our way to see to it. Or at least I think it shouldn't.
But in the U.S. you don't have the right to not be offended. You have the right to be offended and to offend but not to blow up offensive art exhibits and that's just how it is.
Not a point I'm arguing against in any shape, form or fashion. You can say almost, write almost and think anything. I'm speaking to the responsible use of a right and where that use crosses over into something else.
So, if there are people in our society that will murder for a cartoon then I say we need sting operations to bring them out and snuff them.
Just like we have drug stings and stolen cars stings and prostitution stings and so forth.
This wasn't a sting operation. This was a bug light where, when it works, someone is likely hurt or dies.
Perhaps an Atheist billboard around Christmas by a major freeway in the Bible Belt with some cameras to catch anyone vandalizing it..................
And of course you understand I never once suggested that anyone be denied the right to do that either. Same sort of complaint, when it comes right down to it, only this one has an exponentially greater likelihood of ending in tragedy that transcends offense.
