[In response to an anti-LGBT activist]
Only a few people deserve rape. This creature is one of them.
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Erm, guys, cut him some slack here.
We routinely read things like "Die in a fire" on the site. I personally think some people deserve having bad things happen to them, due to their bigotry.
I do not see how NeoMatrix does anything worse than what we do, here.
@ Indicible
I'm not so sure I'm willing to make allowances for slack for someone who says increasingly monstrous things with a similarly escalating frequency. However it is very true this is not an uncommon knee-jerk response to the depraved villainy we see here so often. It's a sharp reminder we need to be better than that, for it's not a very long fall to the point where we truly mean what we say in anger and our worst moments begin to define us. One day, we could be the assholes quoted here.
@Passerby
It's a sharp reminder we need to be better than that, for it's not a very long fall to the point where we truly mean what we say in anger and our worst moments begin to define us.
I only half agree: anger is not necessarily a bad thing. We need to keep that anger when things are worthy of anger.
When I read about homosexuals being stoned, women disfigured with acid because they were not completely hidden from view, skeptics being executed because they dared to point out the religious story is not quite airtight, doctors being killed because they prevent children from being born into poverty or misery, I am angry. And I think it is an impulse we must not lose. When things are infuriating, we need to be furious. Being lukewarm when human beings are hurt by others is not something we can accept or reason with.
The reaction may be kneejerk. It does not mean it is wrong.
Reasoning does always not work. Let them fear the consequences of their actions. It is indeed sad that we have to sometimes resort to violence and hopefully, humanity is getting better. But sometimes, tolerance or appeal to reason simply do not work. In that case, yes, anger is a good thing, because it is our mind's way to tell us that some things are not acceptable and that we should do our utmost to make it cease.
@ NeoMatrix below
The problem you pose to us is not the DIAF tendancy, it is some of the rest.
You lump muslims into one big bag, without any consideration for the fact that, while some aspects of their religions and multiple cultures are deeply unsettling, a good part of them are simply people living in peace and trying to be decent. That is my beef with your discourse and I guess this is the same for many people here.
The difference, NeoMatrix, is that by all indications you maintain that opinion long after anger runs its course and direct it towards people who have done nothing for the simple reason they believe in any sort of religion, whether or not they are fundamentalists or extremists. Even if they are opposed to such people.
Mr Anderson! That's a bit over the top.
The only fundies I've wished it on are either rape apologists or paedo scumbags. Then, if they ended up dropping the soap for Bubba in prison, they would be getting what they dish out to others. Oh, I wouldn't be too sad if filth like that did DIAF.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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