[extropy-chat] thought space map on cartoons

[Amara Graps]

spike:
>A.  Were the Danish newspapers right to publish the cartoons?
>B.  Were the protesters right to react as they have?


>Position 1: no, no.  This is the peacemaker position, Bush,
>Blair, some other world leaders are going this route.

>Position 2: no, yes.  Presumably the protesters point of
>view.

>Position 3: yes, no.  Most journalists will go here, along
>with many westerners who are not 1s.

>Position 4:  Yes, yes.  If both were right, the proponents
>of this view must acknowledge that this will lead to conflict
>which could tear apart societies and possibly lead to world
>war 4.


Oh if it could only be this simple!

And what would you think if you discover that those cartoons
were printed now not for the first time?

They seemed to have been printed once in a respectable Egyptian
newspaper in October 2005 by a well-known journalist
http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/boycott-egypt.html#links

and earlier by the Danish:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-real-truth-behind-the-cartoons-fury/2006/02/08/1139379569017.html

http://www.juancole.com/2006/02/fact-file-on-reaction-to-danish.html

So why again, and why now? Some of this ugly story must include a
little provocation.

Amara