> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:03 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Insane > > If you don't like it, don't watch it. Nice sounding but dangerous in > execution. Do you know that there are TV shows that yell for the killing > of > Jews, Americans, Blacks, etc. Should those shows be allowed to air with > the > caviat of 'just turn the channel'? An attack against the center of a > religions beliefs is ok, but calls to kill them is not? Calls to kill some > other religion is ok, but not if its your own? Where is the line drawn? > Where does free speach become hate speach?
Exactly - and reasonable people have been arguing this point for decades (if not centuries). After all that time it still, effectively comes down to "you know it when you see it". There is also the definition of "attack". While people may see an action as an attack the intention of the action may not have been to attack. In this arena, it seems to me, intentions are more important than impressions. While I maintain that the show in question strikes me at stupid and insipid I've seen nothing to indicate that it was hateful or a purposeful attack. But any attempt to censor can be defended by raising extremes. Few would argue that the killing of blacks or Jews for the sake of it is wrong. How does that relate the idea that Jesus portrayed as a homosexual is funny or insulting? And, of course, the answer to that is BOTH opinions are correct depending on who you talk to. And neither opinion necessarily makes the holder of that opinion a bad or hateful person. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:142053 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
