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  • I'm not suggesting anything.

    Then why do you keep posting? So much posting.

    What you are doing is making a lot of assumptions as to what people believe or think, and then attacking them. (I particularly liked it when you linked my criticism of your borderline-hypocritical position on censorship to me logically supporting the broadcasting of pedophilia. Classy).

    Here's my suggestion. Don't pruposefully offend anyone simply because legally you have the right to. That's a dick move. Also, don't kill people because you've been offended. Very dick move. I have no problem admitting I would not (in the position where I'd have a choice) publish images of Mohammed, and not because I'm worried about pissing off ISIS wannabes (although, that's probably a bit of a fib), but because I don't want to be a dick to the many Muslims who are normal lovely people. I also wouldn't have published the video of the cop getting killed. But I wouldn't call people out (in either case) for "bad form" or "implore" them to take it down or accuse people of perpetuating "a level of indignity and bad taste" or whatever else was thrown around. Then I'd just sound a bit "self-righteous or pompous."

  • Sorry, you're alluding to two separate points here.

    The first is me merely alluding to how radical Muslims don't take kindly to having their religion ridiculed. Everyone knows that, so anyone who deals in this subject knows it's potentially explosive. That's all I said - I expressed no opinion on the morality of that.

    With regard to the video, I've expressed my position on it enough already: I don't think there's any justification for broadcasting it - I think it's grotesque, inflammatory and counter-productive. What's more, I think the reasons for showing it are disingenuous.

    That's my opinion and I don't think it's a particularly radical position.