(July 21, 2015 at 1:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 21, 2015 at 1:20 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm a bit conflicted about this. Every business has a responsibility to ensure the safety of its employees and even satire magazines are businesses. Not everyone working at the magazine is responsible for content. Who would want to be the receptionist? It's a risk management strategy.
And the terrorists win.
Indeed they do, but one single magazine can't really make a huge difference, if the entire French media decided to show these cartoons it would have a great counter effect, but they didn't - Few media outlets in the world showed the cartoon. I prefer to preserve my life than to die fighting for a great cause, even if it's really a brilliant outstanding one.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
