The innocence of...Islam. -

Havoc · #31 09-16-2012, 09:07 AM

What about violence?

Bullet Magnet · #32 09-16-2012, 09:40 AM

Violence is not the correct response to words.

Varrok · #33 09-16-2012, 09:43 AM

Oh, I see now

Havoc · #34 09-16-2012, 12:48 PM

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Violence is not the correct response to words.

I know, but what is the correct response to violence?

Varrok · #35 09-16-2012, 12:53 PM

If there was a 100% correct response to violence, there probably wouldn't be any violence anymore. Violence is not the correct action, for the start

Wings of Fire · #36 09-16-2012, 12:57 PM

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I know, but what is the correct response to violence?

Loud words.

MeechMunchie · #37 09-16-2012, 01:01 PM

What if they puncture your lungs?

Manco · #38 09-16-2012, 01:03 PM

Loud exhalation.

Bullet Magnet · #39 09-16-2012, 01:55 PM

Use the minimum amount of force required to protect yourself. As a last resort, since there are probably smarter ways to do it if you have the sense to figure them out.

As the Doctor said, "violence doesn't end violence. It extends it."

Varrok · #40 09-16-2012, 01:57 PM

Unless you kill everything

Manco · #41 09-16-2012, 02:40 PM

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Use the minimum amount of force required to protect yourself. As a last resort, since there are probably smarter ways to do it if you have the sense to figure them out.

As the Doctor said, "violence doesn't end violence. It extends it."

Or as someone who isn’t fictional once said:

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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Wings of Fire · #42 09-16-2012, 02:48 PM

Or from another dead black guy:

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38 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Bullet Magnet · #43 09-16-2012, 03:09 PM

No one is touching my cloke.

***Nate*** · #44 09-16-2012, 03:27 PM

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I know, but what is the correct response to violence?

When you move to Libya, you'll need to know the correct response to violence. Until then, you can rest easy and stick with words.

OANST · #45 09-17-2012, 07:01 AM

What the fuck? Jacob?

That's my contribution.

STM · #46 09-17-2012, 08:33 AM

What about peace through war? A hypothetical war to end all wars, what about that?

MeechMunchie · #47 09-17-2012, 08:49 AM

To end all conflict, a war would have to wipe out the entire human race. I think that's probably something we want to avoid.

Bullet Magnet · #48 09-17-2012, 09:18 AM

Probably.

Actually, now that I think about it...

STM · #49 09-17-2012, 11:09 AM

Oh no. BM is thinking again.

Bullet Magnet · #50 09-17-2012, 12:42 PM

I'm founding the Involuntary Human Extinction Movement. Come to think of it, we're all working towards that already.

Mac Sirloin · #51 09-17-2012, 01:24 PM

I don't know what it is but it's awful and I hate it and the reaction to it and everything is terrible.

Varrok · #52 09-17-2012, 01:33 PM

I like it. Count me in

Laser · #53 09-17-2012, 01:58 PM

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What the fuck? Jacob?

That's my contribution.

This was my exact thought process when I saw this thread. He was the dude who did the "Should ugly people procreate" thread, right?

On topic: I've never truly understood why Muslims get so angry and zealous when someone critiques or satirises their religion. I haven't heard of any recent angry Christians do something this extreme and they get it in the neck constantly from the likes of Richard Dawkins and the like.

Mac Sirloin · #54 09-17-2012, 02:53 PM

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On topic: I've never truly understood why Muslims get so angry and zealous when someone critiques or satirises their religion. I haven't heard of any recent angry Christians do something this extreme and they get it in the neck constantly from the likes of Richard Dawkins and the like.

Yeah apart from the one who killed 77 people, mostly minors, last year.

Everything is terrible.

scrabface · #55 09-17-2012, 03:20 PM

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This was my exact thought process when I saw this thread. He was the dude who did the "Should ugly people procreate" thread, right?

On topic: I've never truly understood why Muslims get so angry and zealous when someone critiques or satirises their religion. I haven't heard of any recent angry Christians do something this extreme and they get it in the neck constantly from the likes of Richard Dawkins and the like.

the Islam is a much younger religion than Christianity. also do you seriously believe that every culture and religion develops at the same speed?

Bullet Magnet · #56 09-17-2012, 03:43 PM

It used to be better. There was a 300 year period in which Baghdad was the cultural centre of the world.

Havoc · #57 09-17-2012, 03:45 PM

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the Islam is a much younger religion than Christianity. also do you seriously believe that every culture and religion develops at the same speed?

No but Islam is REALLLY taking its sweet time.

***Nate*** · #58 09-17-2012, 04:03 PM

It took Christianity 2000 years to get to this point. Islam is currently at the point that Christianity was 500-1000 years ago.

Mac Sirloin · #59 09-17-2012, 04:07 PM

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It used to be better. There was a 300 year period in which Baghdad was the cultural centre of the world.

Aw man, did you see the one Sandman comic about that? That shit was killer.

Bullet Magnet · #60 09-17-2012, 04:09 PM

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It took Christianity 2000 years to get to this point. Islam is currently at the point that Christianity was 500-1000 years ago.

Basically, the crusades.

If such comparisons actually work. Sikhism is only 500-600 ears old, and it's not especially violent.

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Aw man, did you see the one Sandman comic about that? That shit was killer.

No, but I saw the mathematics. Algebra, algorithms, numerals. And the names of the stars.