Brian37 Wrote:How is calling someone who deserves it, like the homophobe who reciently used his pulpit to make the claim gays should be arrested be any value? If it motivates gays to unite against that "fucktard" why wouldn't that work?
Do you honestly think that you would need to unite gays against a homophobe, and that somehow using the term 'fucktard' would work?
Brian37 Wrote:Do you think men who publicly execute women during halftime at a soccer game deserve value? Do you think murdering women because they wont enter a pre arranged marriage deserves value?
No, I do not, but then again, I also don't think they're worth debating. What relevance does that have to do with you think calling them names would be productive?
Brian37 Wrote:You wont reach those nuts in any case. Blasphemy and ridicule ESPECIALLY of those who are that far gone is a useful tool to put them in their place.
Really? How does balsphemy and ridicule put them in prison?
I'm not saying you shouldn't call a dick a dick, just that hurling insults at everyone with silly beliefs is not going to be productive to your cause.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell