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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
eta: I mostly don't understand why people give a shit about this. Censorship is wrong. Violence is wrong. Offending people is wrong. Condemning Christians doesn't mean you support everything Moslems do, and vice versa.
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Uh, uh... you went a step too far. There are degrees of "wrong." Offending people does not fit in the same pantheon of "wrongs" occupied by violence and censorship. Offending people is something we are all allowed to do in free society. It sits at the very core of freedoms which make a democracy what it is.
The debate here is whether a free society should retreat from free speech because it offends the religious notions of fringe lunatics. The answer to that question is always, unequivocally, no.
