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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6280317" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>So I should stop putting soy sauce on rice? Neither is my "cultural heritage", so who am I to say what is "appropriate"? You can't have it both ways; you can't say I need to respect other people's cultures and do what they want, and then say that I can choose what I think is silly and what isn't.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Or take the image of a religion's founder and use it in a cartoon? </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000">Ok, I've stricken out a paragraph here because it got into religion a bit further than I thought would past muster, but there are religions much, much closer to home than Islam for Umbran (if he's in New England) and I that do not use religious iconography because to do so was offensive to the religion's founders.</span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I understand respect, but my respect ends when you start abrogating my right to freedom of expression. I have the _right_ to offend you, and there may even be times when I am right to do so. Many people find images of war, death, disease, poverty, abuse, and sexuality offensive; should we stop publishing those?</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Sometimes we act in a manner that we can be almost certain offend certain people. That's life. We always act in a manner that will, in some situation, offend somebody. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Ultimately, that decision on whether or not to take offense is up to them. You control your own reactions.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6280317, member: 70"] So I should stop putting soy sauce on rice? Neither is my "cultural heritage", so who am I to say what is "appropriate"? You can't have it both ways; you can't say I need to respect other people's cultures and do what they want, and then say that I can choose what I think is silly and what isn't. [COLOR=#000000] Or take the image of a religion's founder and use it in a cartoon? [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Ok, I've stricken out a paragraph here because it got into religion a bit further than I thought would past muster, but there are religions much, much closer to home than Islam for Umbran (if he's in New England) and I that do not use religious iconography because to do so was offensive to the religion's founders.[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] I understand respect, but my respect ends when you start abrogating my right to freedom of expression. I have the _right_ to offend you, and there may even be times when I am right to do so. Many people find images of war, death, disease, poverty, abuse, and sexuality offensive; should we stop publishing those? Sometimes we act in a manner that we can be almost certain offend certain people. That's life. We always act in a manner that will, in some situation, offend somebody. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Ultimately, that decision on whether or not to take offense is up to them. You control your own reactions. [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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