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Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
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Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:03:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
   Mr Tolerant, Just imagine the fuss in the west if the same paper had printed anti-jewish material...

And if so, so what? Isn’t anyone’s right to make “a fuss”? Unless of course by fuss you mean burn and murder....

The interesting question now is for countries who have freedom of speech (such as Germany), but yet have laws making it illegal to print pro-Nazi and anti-holocaust material.

Are you sure about the latter? ;)

Scott A

   Will they reprint the cartoons? Suddenly free speech is not so free. There is a contradiction there. This is why I always say that freedom must be coupled with responsibility, or it soon devolves, however incrementally, into governmental censorship.

JOHN

Know worldwide as “Mr Tolerant”!



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  Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
 
(...) And if so, so what? Isn't anyone's right to make "a fuss"? Unless of course by fuss you mean burn and murder.... The interesting question now is for countries who have freedom of speech (such as Germany), but yet have laws making it illegal to (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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