RE: 'Blasphemy is a victimless crime' is utter arrogance
November 6, 2010 at 10:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2010 at 10:06 pm by Existentialist.)
Thanks for your reply Adrian. I do look at it that way.
From my point of view, blasphemy isn't a crime, just like a 21-year-old having same-sex sexual relationship with 20-year-old was never a crime. Both are just pathetic excuses for a criminally overbearing state to come down like a ton of bricks on dissent. It's interesting that the fight to get rid of both stupid excuses for laws included conflict with the gay community which wasn't ready to be pushed around by other people's ideas of what a crime was, the first involving Gay News and an artistic work about the emotional life of Jesus, the second a long-term fight for equality on the age of consent. Those struggles against the literal truth as defined by authority have been very easily forgotten.
Blasphemy was never a crime. The state just pretended it was. Same with criminalising consenting adults.
Why?
From my point of view, blasphemy isn't a crime, just like a 21-year-old having same-sex sexual relationship with 20-year-old was never a crime. Both are just pathetic excuses for a criminally overbearing state to come down like a ton of bricks on dissent. It's interesting that the fight to get rid of both stupid excuses for laws included conflict with the gay community which wasn't ready to be pushed around by other people's ideas of what a crime was, the first involving Gay News and an artistic work about the emotional life of Jesus, the second a long-term fight for equality on the age of consent. Those struggles against the literal truth as defined by authority have been very easily forgotten.
Blasphemy was never a crime. The state just pretended it was. Same with criminalising consenting adults.
(November 6, 2010 at 9:55 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Haha @ Existentialist
Why?
