[ExI] riots again

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 27/09/2012 19:05, John Clark ha scritto:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012  Charlie Stross <charlie.stross at gmail.com
> <mailto:charlie.stross at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      > I'm accusing you of arguing in ill-faith. Straw man positions
>     ascribed to your opponents, cherry-picked extracts from someone
>     else's religious texts ... I've seen this before. If we replace
>     "muslim" with "jew" in your previous screed, and replaced the surahs
>     with talmudic extracts, you'd be a dead ringer for Joseph Goebbels'
>     Reich Ministry of Propaganda, i.e. it'd be obvious that you were
>     blatantly, axe-grindingly anti-semitic. But switch to a different
>     religious target and folks give you a free pass. You're disgusting.
>
>
> It's an interesting phenomena, there is a certain breed of liberal out
> there that feels it is his moral obligation to defend the actions of any
> religion no matter how outrageous, provided it is not  one of the
> primary religions of ones own culture; and to defend the actions of any
> government no matter how evil, provided it is not his own government.
> I'm not certain of the cause of this effect, but I suspect it has
> something to do with making the poor boob feel broad minded and
> cosmopolitan.


I would like to correct you.

They do it only if their own primary religion or government it is not a 
real threat to their purse and bones. As either become a real threat 
they start criticize something less threating.

Mirco