Cutting the head off Medusa

[Brian37]

By all means insult Muslims who stab people. They're assholes. I wouldn't recommend doing it to their faces unless you have something sharp. Just don't go attacking every misinformed human being for being misinformed. I'm pretty sure we agree anyway, we're just arguing different points of the same argument.

Oh I agree, but that is no different than doing something stupid like driving a NEW BMW into a redneck meth trailer park and being miffed when it gets stolen or you get car jacked.

But always playing nice is not the way to make change. Again, even in the Muslim dominated country of Morocco, there was outrage BY MANY especially MUSLIM WOMEN, over the suicide of a girl who was sentenced to marry her rapist. If we did not criticize or "insult" anything because it might "offend" THAT growing change among the population, even if not where we would want it, is still taking place because of people who did not "behave" and submit to the egos of social norms.

You cannot always fear conflict nor assume when it happens the person you have that conflict has a glass jaw. While it is true far too many do, change never happens by playing thought police as a solution.

Susan B Anthony, "Well behaved women seldom make history"

Hypatia was murdered in ancient Alexandria by monks who were insulted by her statement something to the affect of ".....myths should be taught as myths and fables should be taught as fables"

If Christian men during Susan's "insulting" idea that women were equal to men, it would be the same justification for murder that the monks used to justify Hypatia.

Again, civility can be achieved, but if that civility is to value individuals, protecting people from being offended does not protect the individual, it sets that majority up to create taboos.

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I think it is fair to say "pick your battles" BUT it is not wise to slap one word solutions in terms of absolutes on a complex species.