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Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.

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Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
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Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 7:34 am
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 7:41 am
Good job Norway

why are all the cool countries so cold *grumble grumble*... pun unintentional
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 7:44 am
RationalPoet.... Mind you, this includes atheists too. I don't agree with Ayn Rand atheists and I don't agree with Che atheists. And I don't agree with liberal atheists who insist on taboos. Only an idiot thinks an insult is worse than being murdered over an insult. In the civil west no one is free from being offended. Civility isn't in preventing getting offended, civility is what you do when you get offended.
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 10:40 am
(May 10, 2015 at 7:41 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Good job Norway

why are all the cool countries so cold *grumble grumble*... pun unintentional

1) the cold keeps the riff-raff out. (riff-raff defined as those unable to persist in the cold.)
2) you have to be on at least slightly positive terms with your neighbor because you may
need them to dig you out from under the latest few feet of snow.
3) most people want to be dug out when covered by snow.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 11:05 am
Yeah! Progress Smile

Well done Norway.
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 11:33 am
Yes, but you can still be prosecuted for hate speech if what you said is considered excessively offensive so you just use a different law to prosecute people Wink
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 2:03 pm
(May 10, 2015 at 7:44 am)Brian37 Wrote: ... Only an idiot thinks an insult is worse than being murdered over an insult. ...

I am quoting the above so that people will read it again, as it is well worth reading a second time.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Good for Norway!
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 3:23 pm
I'm surprised.  I thought they spent all their time cross country skiing?
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RE: Norway scraps PC blasphemy laws.
May 10, 2015 at 4:20 pm
Sweden is even better and everyone knows why.
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