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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 26 January 2015 08:01:01PM *  -1 points [-]

I would be opposed to the idea.

Really, so children should be able to view extremely violent and other adult things?

Um, as opposed to Christians who drink their god's blood..?

I'm guessing the fundamentalist Islamists were pretty scathing of Christianity too. I wouldn't be so bothered about adults saying that, but the important bits include 'taxpayer funded' and 'small children'. Also, communion is an actual part of Christianity, whereas I think "Hindus drink their god's piss" was just a complete fabrication.

I am sorry, is the goal of the exercise to annoy Islamists..? 8-0

I really don't think most people seem to understand that annoying your political opponents serves no purpose and shuts down constructive dialogue.

On second thoughts, I suppose the idea could be to annoy them enough so that the leave the country.

This historically has been argued A LOT. Pretty much every time the question of enforcing cultural norms came up. The funny thing is, those currently in power always argue that the cultural norms which help with keeping them on top are "necessary to prevent society from breaking down".

Yes, it is an interestingly convenient coincidence isn't it?

Comment author: Nornagest 26 January 2015 10:51:43PM *  4 points [-]

Also, communion is an actual part of Christianity, whereas I think "Hindus drink their god's piss" was just a complete fabrication.

I suspect this is pointing to the Hindu reverence for cattle, which tends to show up in weird ways in Hindu-Muslim disputes from that area. Milk is not urine, and cows aren't treated as gods per se, but it's an allegation that I could see Kevin Baconing its way out of the truth.

I do know of one case of ceremonial consumption of urine, but it's not Hindu -- it's a Siberian entheogenic practice aimed at the still-psychoactive metabolites of compounds found in the A. muscaria mushroom, previously eaten by shamans.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 27 January 2015 08:15:02AM 1 point [-]

I suspect this is pointing to the Hindu reverence for cattle, which tends to show up in weird ways in Hindu-Muslim disputes from that area. Milk is not urine, and cows aren't treated as gods per se, but it's an allegation that I could see Kevin Baconing its way out of the truth.

Exactly right! An impressively accurate guess.

Comment author: Lumifer 27 January 2015 01:20:56AM 2 points [-]

Really, so children should be able to view extremely violent and other adult things?

Yes. And they do, by the way.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 28 January 2015 09:05:21AM 0 points [-]

I'm certainly aware that they do. Interestingly, most people arrested for child porn are teenagers sending other teenagers naked pictures.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 January 2015 05:06:27PM 1 point [-]

Certainly those cases exist. Do you have a citation that most arrests are such cases?

Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2015 04:47:32PM 0 points [-]

Which, of course, is another point of evidence towards the claim that the criminal justice system is FUBAR.

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