Rezan, With all due respect for your faith and all...in the USA I have the right to say anything I want about anybody, no matter if it's a bald lie. I'm allowed to blapheme your faith my faith or anybody else's faith. I'm allowed to claim the earth is flat and rests on the backs of tortoises, Kachinas guard the entry to the underworld, etc. Or that that that the earth is a sphereoid and the the Zeus and Posiedon don't exist! I can publish any of these ideas and the books cannot be banned.
I can blaspheme Jesus, the Prophet, Pope, Buddah, Jupiter, Mary, or Cthulhu as long and as loud as I want. I can do all that in print, or on youtube or on a billboard (I guess..if I own the billboard), I can blaspheme in the radio spectrum, or with a can of spray paint, or with laser light or oil paint on canvas or with drums and bass or with an opera company and orchestra. I can blaspheme with shadow puppets or with sky writing behind an airplane. The state can not punish me for that. Granted it would not do much for my popularity, but I get invited to enough parties as it is. I like that. I also like that anybody who want's to insult my core beliefs, like the spheroid earth, gravitation, tides influenced by the moon, thermodynamics, wave / particle nature of electromagnetism, pythagorean theorem etc. are free to do so in any way they like. The louder they do it the better I feel. That is one reason among many that I'm happy to live in this country at this time. USA 2016 that is.
Professor, we disagree. I believe the constitution gives everyone the right to run their fool mouth as long and as loud as they want. Like minded idiots who agree are also allowed. When criminal acts are done, the perpetrators should be well punished. Grandma said, "if you want to be dumb, then you had better be tough" I'm not ready to punish the "blowhard down at the other end of the bar" (my longhand for "Trump") because of what some guy with poor impulse control does with his matches and fuel. They will rebuild their mosque better than original. Best of luck to them. Running yer mouth is NOT the same as giving a weak minded guy gas and matches, and I'm not even sure that giving a guy fuel and matches is all that bad because if he has any sense he'll put the gas in is car and say "thanks, sucker". Ingmar Bergman is not responsible for the people who watched his movies and then killed themselves. It's your life. Watch the movie and decide what you want to do.
I agree.
Grandma said "Dont claim malice when sloth will do".
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Rezan, With all due respect for your faith and all...in the USA I have the right to say anything I want about anybody, no matter if it's a bald lie. I'm allowed to blapheme your faith my faith or anybody else's faith. I'm allowed to claim the earth is flat and rests on the backs of tortoises, Kachinas guard the entry to the underworld, etc. Or that that that the earth is a sphereoid and the the Zeus and Posiedon don't exist! I can publish any of these ideas and the books cannot be banned.
I can blaspheme Jesus, the Prophet, Pope, Buddah, Jupiter, Mary, or Cthulhu as long and as loud as I want. I can do all that in print, or on youtube or on a billboard (I guess..if I own the billboard), I can blaspheme in the radio spectrum, or with a can of spray paint, or with laser light or oil paint on canvas or with drums and bass or with an opera company and orchestra. I can blaspheme with shadow puppets or with sky writing behind an airplane. The state can not punish me for that. Granted it would not do much for my popularity, but I get invited to enough parties as it is. I like that. I also like that anybody who want's to insult my core beliefs, like the spheroid earth, gravitation, tides influenced by the moon, thermodynamics, wave / particle nature of electromagnetism, pythagorean theorem etc. are free to do so in any way they like. The louder they do it the better I feel. That is one reason among many that I'm happy to live in this country at this time. USA 2016 that is.
Professor, we disagree. I believe the constitution gives everyone the right to run their fool mouth as long and as loud as they want. Like minded idiots who agree are also allowed. When criminal acts are done, the perpetrators should be well punished. Grandma said, "if you want to be dumb, then you had better be tough" I'm not ready to punish the "blowhard down at the other end of the bar" (my longhand for "Trump") because of what some guy with poor impulse control does with his matches and fuel. They will rebuild their mosque better than original. Best of luck to them. Running yer mouth is NOT the same as giving a weak minded guy gas and matches, and I'm not even sure that giving a guy fuel and matches is all that bad because if he has any sense he'll put the gas in is car and say "thanks, sucker". Ingmar Bergman is not responsible for the people who watched his movies and then killed themselves. It's your life. Watch the movie and decide what you want to do.