/r/Atheism do you think violence is okay in that situation?

I got downvoted in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/mx6hr/crazy_fundie_knocked_out_xpost...

For not agreeing that it was a funny, or reasonable response.
I do not see violence as the optimal response in that situation.

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[MistressArte]

I think people are just venting if this were a real life situation it wouldn't have happened that way.

[Tylzen]

@MistressArte I sincerely hope so.

[LapisLong]

Seems to me that a number of people will not respond to a comic as if it were real, and I think you would have more support finding real things to denounce. As for me I find no humor in the cartoon and it expresses no positive message (it that was even the point).

[Tylzen]

@LapisLong It is the message that the comic represents, not if it happened or not for real.

[bigjustin69er]

@tylzen. I totally agree with you 100 percent ,there's nothing more to say.

[Zoddca321]

I would say the first two thirds of this video is reasonable. Jus because of reasonable, logical and thought in general. But you obviously took a bit off in the end. What i mean is that you go from responding with reasonable force to becoming emotional over the subject itself and mentioning that it's "wrong". I have a problem with these concepts of "right" and "wrong" because it builds on something that the majority of people have inside, therefore I think you should try to be a bit more object

[Friendough]

Secular humanism: no matter what he believes, he is still a person, and always deserves the respect you would afford to anyone. It's not acceptable for anyone to promote hate and violence.

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

In many, not all places in the US, even with all of the situation's contexts missing from the example, the reactions were very self preservational. If you haven't seen or experienced the level of insanity that Christian fascists quickly ramp up to, or how they hair trigger into a violent mob, with just a few key words, you could not understand. Calling 911 for local first responders to come, can be an act of suicide. We atheists, are in bad cases, treated like the Jews were, in 1930's Germany.

[MistressArte]

I wouldn't use any violence unless I have no other choice and then only enough to get them to stop attacking, and that's how I think most people are or at least how they should be.

[MistressArte]

@Tylzen If they did act on it there would be a lot of Atheist in prison and there isn't we're underrepresented. People are just frustrated with being pissed on all the time, I know sometimes it feels good when I tear apart a hateful theist in the comment section making them look like a total idiot however that's different then punching one of them in the face. If it were irl I'd protect the person they are trying to hurt by getting them away from those idiots while calling the cops.

[kalsolarUK]

I with you 100% on this one.

[Tylzen]

@warpedwiselegoman Good points