I agree with the latter argument, but I do think the first group has a legitimate argument. In any case debate is interesting and helps us question our views, even if it rarely changes them. It's a useful and enjoyable exercize, though sometimes emotions run high. Certainly no reason to feel like slamming the door on Eurotrib.
Although my take is that the images should be avoided in the same measure than other images that attack jews and catholics are avoided...The bar should be raised or the diminshed at the same time. Just to point out more clearly :)
I love your post.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
That I care more about one side of the arguments today does not mean that I do not care about the arguments from the other side.
Personally, I am glad that such an intense debate could take place with almost no irrevocably nasty words written. But this is probably not over yet... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
To me, this entire debate flows from freedom of speech. It's a positive thing that there is such a vigorous debate going on here. If it were not, we all would be reduced to pundits professing the same "wisdom" and preach to the choir. There are enough of those out on the net; in fact ET partly stands up to them. If any, this debate proves why everyone should stick to ET.
