[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> ​>…There is a big difference between what we are doing here and what we
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> This is publicly.  Everything we write here is wide open and the internet
> never forgets.  Every email should be assumed to be stored and hacked if it
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> >…While it may be intellectually defensible to criticize religions and
> cultures and ladies' hairdos, it can get downright dangerous to do so in
> their faces…
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> By all means.  Ladies with funny hair won’t kill you, people in weird
> cultures will not kill you.  Of all the religions discussed on the
> internet, one will sue you and one will kill you.  Notice that neither gets
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> >…  We all might be on somebody's hit list if we go public with our
> opinions.  bill w​
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> We are already on several hit lists.  One of our own went to prison over
> internet criticism of one of the two religions mentioned in the previous
> comment.  In the USA we had our own attorney general recently threaten
> legal repercussions against those who would criticize a culture:
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> http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/loretta-lynch-actions-predicated-on-violent-talk-toward-musl#.uddAV5VNBN
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> Sheesh, how did we get here?
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> ​OK, I read it and it is kind of frightening.  We need a lawyer.  I
> thought that advocating the overthrow of the USA by violence was the only
> restriction on free speech except for inciting riots, etc.  The latter is,
> I suppose, what the Att. Gen is talking about.  On that basis she could
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​When will people get the idea that free means free?  Or that a handful of
Muslims do not necessarily characterize the ideas of the other billion of
them?  Stimulus generalization gone berserk.

bill w​


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