RE: Koran book burning
September 9, 2010 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2010 at 3:04 pm by lrh9.)
I'm glad of this. A victory for offensive speech is a victory for us all. To say otherwise is to dismiss the value and validity of free speech. We won't be promoting peace by destroying free speech. I watched a movie named Equilibrium about a future in which World War 3 was so devastating, a world government formed to enforce the consumption of an emotion destroying drug to prevent the negative emotions which cause war. However, not everyone wanted to take the drug. They would go underground to acquire materials with 'emotional content' and to feel emotions. The government would respond by waging war on those groups. They would send out squads to destroy the emotional content and execute the people feeling emotions on site. In the end, they practiced the very evils they were trying to prevent. If you oppose the allowance of this you are no different and you are certainly not promoting peace, but war. To say that only those who are right should be allowed to express themselves is a path to genocide.
Mind you, I'm not saying that you should value this.
For me, a victory for all or a victory for only myself is just as equal. I don't really care as long as I win. I'm just providing my assessment of the situation. If you want peace, protect their speech. If you want total war, wage it. Just point me in the right direction and stay the fuck out of my way.
Mind you, I'm not saying that you should value this.
For me, a victory for all or a victory for only myself is just as equal. I don't really care as long as I win. I'm just providing my assessment of the situation. If you want peace, protect their speech. If you want total war, wage it. Just point me in the right direction and stay the fuck out of my way.