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Subject:	Re: Arkham Asylum - A cool set, but a bit disturbing.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.licensed.batman, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:52:43 GMT
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In lugnet.licensed.batman, Timothy Gould wrote:

Here you kick into what I consider to be an alarmist over-reaction yourself. Do you really think that a comment on a LEGO forum read by a small number of people is comparable to a cartoon published in a newspaper (and then many newspapers) which specifically offended certain aspects of a religion at a time of already heightened tensions?

I agree. But I’m not sure being equally alarmist about the offense is a good way to deal with it.

Tim

Hi Tim! I’d rather be talking with you about MOCs, but what can you do, right? Anyway, I’m sure the cartoonist who started that particular controversy thought the same thing. Words affect things, people read stuff. I don’t think it’s an over-reaction-things can have a butterfly effect some times.

I honestly don’t think Richie’s post is going to start global riots, but if the wrong person read it, anything can happen. Comparing Arkham Asylum to Abu Ghraib is much more alarmist than suggesting that people can be alarmist in reaction to it.

I agree with you that I am exagerrating but I don’t think the alarmism is equal.

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		Re: Arkham Asylum - A cool set, but a bit disturbing.
(...) But that is why we have .off-topic.debate ;) (which both of us forgot to move to... sorry, Lugnet) (...) I suspect the cartoonist either didn't think much at all or consciously set out to be malicious but we'll never really know the answer to (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.licensed.batman, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Arkham Asylum - A cool set, but a bit disturbing.
(...) OK. I'm with you to here. Not sure I entirely agree but it's all reasonable. (...) Here you kick into what I consider to be an alarmist over-reaction yourself. Do you really think that a comment on a LEGO forum read by a small number of people (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.licensed.batman, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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