RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 18, 2015 at 8:16 pm
(March 18, 2015 at 4:59 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Someone saying that your ideas are wrong, even to the point of flatly calling them bullshit, is not social terrorism. Full stop. Especially when, in calling them bullshit, reasonable explanations for why they're bullshit are presented. If your belief system can't handle a little surface level scrutiny, maybe instead of labeling others as terrorists in an effort to discredit and shame them into silence, you can perform some introspection and compare what they say against those beliefs and figure out which is more logical, hmmm?
And there's a huge difference between mocking an idea, one which is either false or irrelevant, and mocking people, so your example of homosexuals is a poor one. These people exist, and homosexuality is a natural state of being (despite whatever your holy book may say).
No it is not! Please tell me why I should be polite to humans who go out of their way to treat other human beings like shit. Gays have a right to bitch right now because they are widely treated like shit far too much, even though things are better. They still get treated like shit.
The public sphere in the west is not a captive situation like say a liberal Muslim like Malala in Pakistan.
You don't get to civility by always insisting politeness. Civility isn't fostered through censorship. Civility is what you do when you get offended. You still in the west do not have the right to be free from being offended.
Now, if you want to make an argument it is not always good to cuss or blaspheme I agree, context of situation matters. I am not, nor ever will be a fan as "never ever" as a solution.
All 7 billion humans can think of something they find offensive. I think it is stupid to allow other people force of law as a blanket solution for every situation to keep the peace. If you want to know what political correctness looks like, try North Korea or Saudi Arabia. I am sure it is fine for those who tow the social norm line in those states, but it sucks for anyone who does not want to live there.
IT DEPENDS on when and where that dictates your behavior, not "never". If we never blasphemed anything we would still be living in the dark ages.
