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Subject: Re: [boost] Religious sensibility (WAS: RE: [XInt] CoW/Move Timings)
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-24 13:26:16


At Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:46:20 +0100,
Robert Kawulak wrote:
>
> 2011/3/14 Domagoj Saric <domagoj.saric_at_[hidden]>:
> > "Absolute tolerance" is just another self-contradicting post-modern idea for
> > it would, of course, have to tolerate intolerance.
> >
> > In a multi-billion population you will find very many people (including
> > university professors) that will argue for or have nothing against e.g.
> > paedophilia, zoophilia, eugenics, euthanasia etc...
>
> Just to be clear - I wouldn't defend references to paedophilia since
> paedophilia is a crime. Satanism is not a crime, it's only a
> philosophy/religion. Sure, one may argue that people were doing
> horrible things under the banner of Satanism, but the same applies to
> most of the mainstream religions.

I suppose if I had thought there was any chance that Pavel was an
actual Satanist, I'd have written something different.

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