Monkfish said:
goalmole said:
You have amply demonstrated what i have trying to tell everybody all along i.e. one persons perfectly reasonable and factually true comment can be offensive to another person in whose view the author deserves all the abuse he gets.
One persons free speech it would seem is more sacred than the other's and free speech does cause offence.
Thank you Stony for illustrating this.
You going to fully illustrate by suicide bombing the south stand then?
I'll quote you but reply to all my other critics at the same time in a final post because it's getting to my bedtime and i do have work in the morning.
I am a proponent of non violence, free speech and personal freedoms. What i do not condone is making inflammatory remarks specifically designed to inflame or provoke a particular group. E.g crying fire in the proverbial theatre. I believe in rights but i also believe in responsibilities. If you are going to make a malicious provocation and not expect a reaction, then you are stupid as well as malicious.Which is what the Jyllands Posten newspaper by their own admission did. Only they knew there would be a reaction but were not concerned what the consequences might be.
We need to promote free speech but not at the cost of deliberately singling out one religious, ethnic or racial group.
I hope there will no more cartoons printed, not because we have lost the battle but because it is the right thing to do.
May you all go in peace.