21st May 2010, 7:16 AM
Fitts, I kinda responded to your post before you made it.
If you're living peacefully and not attacking people, this isn't about you. Go on about your day and get over yourself if you don't like people making fun of what you believe. People make fun of other's political beliefs, their sports teams, and all sorts of silly things like scientology and such all the time. What's the difference here? Either everything should be open to ridicule, or nothing is.
This was started because people THREATENED TO MURDER OTHERS OVER A DRAWING! Never forget that. That's way more important than being "rude". It TRUMPS it. It WINS. At that point, you have an obligation to be rude.
If you're living peacefully and not attacking people, this isn't about you. Go on about your day and get over yourself if you don't like people making fun of what you believe. People make fun of other's political beliefs, their sports teams, and all sorts of silly things like scientology and such all the time. What's the difference here? Either everything should be open to ridicule, or nothing is.
This was started because people THREATENED TO MURDER OTHERS OVER A DRAWING! Never forget that. That's way more important than being "rude". It TRUMPS it. It WINS. At that point, you have an obligation to be rude.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)