gyrmination

On my whiteboard:
Religious Hatred => How do we determine which thought to respect?
Half-erased, it’s been sitting there since I read a Harper’s article on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy more than a year ago. The essence of the question I intended to explore was, what are the criteria for thoughts and beliefs we should respect? […]

“It was their hypocrisy I abhorred. At least if they had come out openly and said: We loved Hitler, one might have weighed their humanity with their honesty and perhaps forgiven them.” (Fear of Flying, 61)
The ridiculous state of tension between Japan and China these days - the “protests” in China staged with tacit government […]