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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Now maybe we can move on. Perhaps you can address my earlier post asking why you said Muslima's quote made a good point - but you ignored one of its key themes, which is that the journalists should have been smart enough to cave in to threats of violence. And whether the point of the cartoons was not to deliberately insult people, but rather to defy those who are threatening violence.[/quote]

I disagree that journalists should have caved into the threats of violence. I also disagree that threats of violence should be countered by lifting normal content guidelines. If a newspaper wouldn't have published one of the cartoons last week, it shouldn't publish one of them this week. It is wrong to let people with guns change your behavior one way or the other.
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I think you're saying that we should let the police do their work, and be done with it. I also feel that this is a position of convenience for you. I feel like you'd totally change your mind if there were a hilarious cartoon involving the Trinity and homosexuals to be published. Maybe I'm wrong.

Finding and incarcerating the killers in no way stops the threat to CH. Without support from other journalists, CH is exposed again. CH is out there again as one of the few journals challenging threats involving cartoons. Unless CH caves too, which might well happen in the absense of support from other journals and journalists. Perhaps you think CH should never have published the cartoons in the first place, which is a defensible position, but now that CH went there, to me caving has become like paying ransom for hostages.

So why shouldn't people use any other non-violent means of protest that are available to them? Sure, other journalists are writing exposes about al Qaeda and ISIS, but nobody was ever killed over an expose. People are being killed over cartoons, so cartoons are point the where other journalists can lend non-violent support.[/quote]

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