In Defence of C0nc0rdance

I'm still busy with my exams, and with my behavioural study, but I have enough time to put out this quick video, which admittedly had very little effort put into it (in terms of graphics). Hopefully people listen to the message til the end.

Cheers
Think About It

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• C0nc0rdance
• Thunderf00t
• Draw
• Muhammad
• Day
• Burn
• Quran
• Koran
• Qu'ran

[airandfingers]

2:05 "I sort of question his reasoning into why Thunderf00t used a hard drive. It might be a bit much to infer that he's talking about the ease of deleting information."

See Thunderf00t's video "Burning Half a Million Korans" at /watch?v=Q2z-YHF_GVk#t=03m48s for his specific discussion of why burning books today is not like is was in the days before electronic media.

[ThinkAbout1t]

@airandfingers Yeah, I've seen it. I just think that Tf00t had a hard drive laying around. It's also far less practicaly to burn multiples of an actual book, than burning digital copies. I agree it carries a message, I just think the justification came after the practicality, not before.

[Gnug215]

2 people disagree with your video.

I guess someone will have to make a video in your defense.

[mecher3k]

@AdvanceSockem

"I hope you will mature."

As if the people who go "I'm unsubbing from you!" are mature in the first place?

Irony, learn it.

[stiimuli]

concordance wanst infering that TF used a harddrive for ease of deleting information....this was one of the specific reasons TF enumerated for using the hardrive in his own video.

[jonnyclueless]

@Joe22c All input creates an emotional response so no example is needed to show that people have an emotional response. But what they do with that response is a decision, even if the emotional response is based on conditioning. Many men are disgusted by sex between two men. It's built in to most. But as far as being offended, that's a choice. A gruesome image may provoke a negative emotional response from me, but I am not going to let if offend me.

[Joe22c]

@Joe22c [Continued...]

Example: if you were briefly flashed a gruesome image that was too brief to have registered into conscious attention you would display physiological signs associated with disgust and various parts of your brain associated with disgust would be activated (this can be done in an fMRI).

All without even being consciously aware of the stimulus. It would thus be defensible and plausible to say you experienced disgust without ever choosing to do so.

[Joe22c]

@jonnyclueless

I never said emotional responses make things right, don't be silly.

I am merely saying that you are over estimating the extent to which people are in control of what offends them. To say that we choose to be this, and we choose to be that etc. is naive.

People are rational beings in the sense that we often rationalize our responses after they have occurred.

To give you a more concrete example see my reply to this post (I am reaching youtube's character limit)

[jonnyclueless]

@Joe22c I am not talking about their emotional response. They choose to decide to be offended by that. We all have emotional response to things, that doesn't make them right. We choose however to be offended by them. When I was a christian I had a negative emotional response to homosexuality, yet choose to acknowledge those feelings were incorrect and not in any way the fault of the person on the other side of the argument. It was my choice. I could have chosen to be offended,

[klutterkicker]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think they prefer being called Muslims to Islamic People because as I read "Islamic refers to things, Muslim refers to people." In this age it seems like every group and demographic wants you to call them a something-people as if you don't assume they're people.

[VapidZero]

In defense of the in defense, sounds like an endless loop

[TwyztdValkyrie]

Yes, its justified. Freedom of speech is not freedom from offence. And he probably saw the old harddrive and was like HEY! this gives me an idea. We need more defiance that harms none: except sensibilities, offences and feelings. Those can be harmed at will and maybe someone will learn a lesson and grow a tougher skin. Christians have to deal with it all the time from us atheists; its about time the Muslims grew up too.

[synsei1]

I was just reading about an exhibition where artworks have been broken by catholic extremists in Avignon - France. The inciminated blasphematory work is Piss Christ by Andreas Serrano, a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of urine. A petition against this exhibition has collected 85,000 signatures so far.

Time to start an international "Pee on Jeebus Day"?