[ExI] riots again

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of spike
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>.It might not even require hanging anyone: merely announcing publicly the
change in policy might be sufficient.  Blasphemy cases making it to court
would drop dramatically, most likely to zero, problem solved.  spike

 

A follow-on idea: create a movie, or rather just a trailer from a
non-existent video with the theme as follows: local woman commits ambiguous
blasphemy by for instance uttering the name of Joseph Smith without saying
peace be upon him, or by expressing sympathy for Buddhism.  Several other
women, who covet her husband and his many fine goats, accuse her of
blasphemy, a "trial" is held, accused counter-accuses the accusers who are
immediately hanged for either blasphemy (if the original accused did in fact
commit blasphemy, her testimony is a deathbed accusation is true by
definition) or attempted murder (if the original accused did not commit
blasphemy, her testimony is not a deathbed confession and therefore not
admissible evidence but true in any case.)  It doesn't much matter which is
the case, the local religious authorities reason, the original accusers must
be executed quickly and the original accused must be released for lack of
evidence.  

 

The entire video is completely fictitious, no need to harm any actual fine
goats, no need for any change in the legal system at all, no need to involve
any local Middle Western governments in any way.  All we would need is a
video camera, some unemployed actors and a few translators.  The existence
of the fictitious video itself might boot these benighted societies down the
road to recovery by drawing attention to the stunningly illogical legal
prohibition against blasphemy and all the mischief that absurd policy can
spawn.

 

spike 

 

 

 

 

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