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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Why would they be responsible? The people conducting the violence are the ones responsible. Your entire posts goes to illustrate how western society is affraid to stand up for there beliefs for fear of insulting someone else.
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Are they legally responsible? Probably not, but I'd say that they are at least partially responsible in a moral and ethical sense.
If ther are going to willingly publish something that they know will likely cause riots, then they should be willing to accept some responsibility for that. True, they aren't the ones throwing rocks and breaking stuff, but they are the ones inciting it by printing something that they know will cause this.
I realize this isn't the same level as something like spouting a bunch of hate speach, but that type of thing is illegal for these exact reasons.
Sure I'm not the one to go burn down Mosques, but if I'm spouting to a bunch of people to do so, I can be held responsible.
I don't want to see this type of thing banned, because the outrage that it causes is completely irrational (at least to us in the western world), but at the same time it is predicable and preventable.
They printed them once and they caused a ruckus. Fine, I totally agree that the reacation that these caused wasn't predicatable, but now it is, and I'd say it's not unreasonable to say it could be worse due to the perception that it is being done as a slap in the face to those who reacted so intensley in the first place.
Do they have the right to print it?
Of course they do.
Should they print it?
I'd say no, wny add fuel to the fire?
It's not a matter of fear, it's a matter of logic and common sense.
If you hate your buddy's girlfriend do you tell him? Probably not (unless your a dick). Why don't you tell him, because you're affraid he might kick your ass? Maybe, but probably more because you can reason through it and conclude that it won't change a thing, and will only make things difficult between you, so you're better off to keep your mouth shut.
Common Sense != Fear