Saturday, February 04, 2006
Ideology Is Less Flammable Than Flags
This idea comes from a comment Tom made regarding flag burning under the previous post. Here in the U.S. there is a divide between those who support flag burning as freedom of speech and those who find it offensive and think it should be illegal. I do not find flag burning the least bit offensive. I can understand that to certain people the flag represents what they have fought for or believe in in other ways. To some others it represents things they wish to change. The burning symbolizes the doing away with the old order. If your church burns down, do you lose your faith? One would hope not or else your beliefs are very weak. I think of flags in the same way. If one's beliefs are so weak as to be challenged by the destruction of a material thing then one should not have those beliefs. It is foolish to be concerned over the burning of a flag itself but far more logical to be concerned with the reasons and ideology of someone burning a flag. On an end note, according to the U.S. regulations regarding proper disposal of the U.S. flag the accepted method of destruction is to burn it.
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Interesting.. I don't think it should be illegal. But don't you find it slightly intimidating? I don't know if you heard, but the Danish Embassy in Syria was set on fire. The same happened to the Norwegian one in Syria. Do you think, that when people behave like animals, they deserve to be ridiculed. I'm not sure if I believe that, but it is just an idea. However, in this country (England), some Muslims had placards saying: Butcher those who ridicule Islam - and other similar mottos.
Some were also chanting: 7/7 is on it's way. This is a sick, ridiculous thing to say. 52 people lost their lives in this attack, and to say they will do it again is disgusting.
What pains me even more is that the Muslims in England have NO right at all to be angry with the English. We have not published the pictures, so why all the hate here?
I've tried to improve typos e.t.c. in this post.
Tom
Did you not think I'm capable of real discussion? Sure i am like :
wtf omg lol blah blah on forums, but that's ok there. I can type and speak normally when it's required, but it saves time to spk lk dis.
No, I do not find it the least bit intimidating. The reason is because they are foolish people. They only cause harm to themselves by causing harm to others. Ridiculing them accomplishes nothing because they simply do not understand it. You cannot ridicule someone and expect them to become a better person. The reason for this is they have no reference point from which to see that their behavior is absurd. To them it is perfectly natural to go torch buildings and behead people when they find something offensive. You are correct that Britain hasn't published the cartoons. The explaination for this poor behavior towards Britain is in my previous post's title. They are unreasonable people.
I guess that's true.
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