Mind if I use this as a quote to go with the "Draw Mohammed" picture?
Please feel free to use it wherever and in whichever way you see fit.
And this is indeed a very good, and not merely rhetorical, point.
Thanks. It occurred to me while hearing for the umpteenth time someone going on about how
Charlie Hebdo should not have provoked Islamic sensitivities.
Why on Earth does a Muslim's offense count for more than mine?
It shouldn’t, but the idea that it does is just one aspect of religions’ success in arrogating special considerations for themselves.
Anyway, it does present an interesting opportunity: if government does decide to start censoring offensive material, rationalists really should launch a lawsuit to have the Bible or Qur'an censored...
An even better strategy might be also to include the
Tanakh, the
Vedas,
Dianetics and other prominent “holy” books, and then getting each group of believers to call for the censoring of all the others. (However, it remains doubtful that such an initiative would actually succeed in getting the basic point across.)
'Luthon64
"Sensitive" people are now carefully examining the entire universe, trying to find something to be "offended" at. It won't stop until such time as the "offenders" learn to stop apologizing, and saying "freck off" instead. — brianvds, The ShoutBox Classics, 02/07/2018.