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Thread #151287   Message #3538121
Posted By: Little Hawk
16-Jul-13 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: I am not perfect after all
Subject: RE: BS: I am not perfect after all
Hmmm. Interesting response there, Musket. I'm going to have to think about that some.

There have been quite a few jokes made along that general line, such as...

"The intolerant must NOT be tolerated!" (to paraphrase what you said)

"Kill the murderers!"

"Invade the aggressors!"

I remember seeing on a wall one time, someone had written:

"CASTRATE RAPISTS!!!"

And someone else had written below that:

"RAPE CASTRATORS!!!"

When angry mobs gathered in Rome to drive out (and often kill) the early Christians, they would scream, "Out with the atheists!" (they saw Christians as godless atheists, because the Christians didn't honor the various Roman gods and goddesses, as was normal practice for Romans at that time.)

I find that deliciously ironical. It says a lot about people's hysterical tendency to pronounce summary (and not very well-informed) judgement on others.

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And then there's the old proverb, "fools seldom differ", but it couldn't BE more wrong! ;-D Fools constantly differ. A trip to any seedy bar will prove this in no uncertain terms before the night is over.