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Comment author: TobyBartels 18 April 2011 04:42:49AM 2 points [-]

But game-theoretically, these two situations are not parallels at all. In particular, the pastor who wanted to burn the Qur'an actually wanted to offend. In contrast, the people behind Park51 want to integrate Muslims into American society.