06-13-2017, 11:31 AM
(06-13-2017, 11:22 AM)Dill Wrote: LOL looks like you posted that while I was addressing your 99%.
And obviously, it didn't mean I had "no answer."
And just for the record, If I had left that one question, it would not have meant I was "ignoring" anything or "uninterested in actually addressing the points being made."
Sometimes I think you do not understand how arguments hang together, so that one need not address "every point" as you sometimes put it. Refuting one linchpin premise can be enough to bring down the whole.
Right now I think you do understand at some level, or you would not have been to so ready to dodge that one question, as if it were not "addressing the points you actually made."
You keep trying to change the debate. Sadly, for you, I'm not allowing you to. The point, which is clearly and abundantly made, is that religious extremism can only be combated by confronting it and forcing it to conform to the values of a secular society. Now, if it refuses to do so, then its place in a society that values this, like pretty much every "western" nation, will be disruptive and will require a response. The fact that people like you want to mitigate the extremism by coddling its perpetrators as victims of imperialism or western subjugation merely enables the problem. The issue is really not that complex, some behavior is acceptable and some is not. I'm not going to excuse unacceptable behavior by anyone because they think they have divine permission to act in an unacceptable manner. You keep looking for root causes while ignoring the teachings of the religion used to validate that behavior. Essentially you're looking at the branches and wondering how they hold the tree up.
