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Re: Offended Muslim chokes atheist: Where's the outrage from the Left?
I have two main arguments to make here.
First, there's a natural process through which people are socialized. If someone is displaying asocial behavior (like running around naked covered in green jell-o), society will naturally self-correct this behavior. Someone who displays anti-social behavior will be shunned, mocked, and sometimes beaten by community members.
What this atheist was doing was clearly anti-social behavior. In other words, he was being a jackass. What happened to him was predictable, natural, and deserved.
My second point is that our legal system has limited resources.
We know that the atheist was asking for confrontation.
We know that the muslim never actually touched him, he tried to rip the sign from off the atheist's neck.
We know the atheist was not injured, didn't require a hospital stay, and had no damage done to his person.
Thus, common sense tells us he is wasting taxpayer dollars, and wasting the valuable time and resources of the judiciary.
Not only should this case have been thrown out, the atheist should be stuck with the court fees as well. This is a ridiculously petty case, a waste of resources, and frankly, he had it coming.
> I think the atheist deserved to get his butt whipped.
Probably, but it's still illegal to do the honors, and whoever decides that justice is best dealt on the street and decides to kick someones ass for offending them deserves jail time. If he really believes that violent confrontation is the right thing to do, then he should take his jail time in stride.
> Seriously, what good reason does someone have for going out and demonstrating dressed in a Zombie Muhammed costume?
Doesn't need one.
> Does the 1st amendment protect someone being a jackass?
Yes.
It's not the judges job to decide who's an asshole and who's not. That's not what the court is here for. The judge was in err. His personal opinion of the parties in the court are irrelevant and must not be considered, along with his opinions on religion.
I have two main arguments to make here.
First, there's a natural process through which people are socialized. If someone is displaying asocial behavior (like running around naked covered in green jell-o), society will naturally self-correct this behavior. Someone who displays anti-social behavior will be shunned, mocked, and sometimes beaten by community members.
What this atheist was doing was clearly anti-social behavior. In other words, he was being a jackass. What happened to him was predictable, natural, and deserved.
My second point is that our legal system has limited resources.
We know that the atheist was asking for confrontation.
We know that the muslim never actually touched him, he tried to rip the sign from off the atheist's neck.
We know the atheist was not injured, didn't require a hospital stay, and had no damage done to his person.
Thus, common sense tells us he is wasting taxpayer dollars, and wasting the valuable time and resources of the judiciary.
Not only should this case have been thrown out, the atheist should be stuck with the court fees as well. This is a ridiculously petty case, a waste of resources, and frankly, he had it coming.
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