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Everybody's passing judgement: my judgement is that this material shouldn't be shown (and has only been shown because it makes 'good' television - but that's another matter); your judgement is that it should be shown because to not allow it to be shown would violate some idea of... civil liberty, I suppose.
My retort to that is: at what point does it no longer become acceptable to broadcast images that many people might find disturbing? Paedophilia, the stoning to death of someone found guilty of adultery, acts of torture, somebody trapped in a burning vehicle...?
I find it odd that some people here seem to equate my wanting to deprive them of being able to see something as being somehow more pompous, self-righteous, and almost laughable, than them wanting to allow people to see something.
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I find it odd that some people here seem to equate my wanting to deprive them of being able to see something as being somehow more pompous, self-righteous, and almost laughable, than them wanting to allow people to see something.
I think you would get an even worse reaction if you started posting links to videos of executions. I don't entirely agree with you about the video being posted on this thread, it seems a minor thing to me, but you make a valid point and have not come accross as a self righteous bellend or an estate agent or anything like that. At some point though you'll have to stop replying because this place is full of last word freaks.
When people say that religion itself is the cause of this kind of violent, merciless fanaticism, I immediately think of Maoism, Stalinism, Nazism, the atrocities of the Spanish civil war, the English Defence league, French neo-fascism, the imprisonment and torture of Muslim Brotherhood members by the more secular government of Egypt etc etc. What perhaps sets Islamism apart from these is the way it spans continents and unites much larger groups of people. I would say that religion can make fanaticism more dangerous, but it does not cause it.
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And three people today objected to images of some sort being published, at the very least out of respect for their beliefs.
Obviously the way you are responding is profoundly different (and better), but you're nonetheless taking it upon yourself to pass judgement on others because you have some sense of what is right which differs from theirs.