pragmakist

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It’s German, and you’re about as right as anyone trying to say a German word in English can expect to get.

In Denmark the case surrounding “Nøddebo præstegård” caused copyright to be enacted.

I’ve noticed the theme come up in other countries, amongst these France, but I’ll grant that I may have overestimated its importance by overfitting to prior knowledge.

The purpose of copyright in the USA, and as far as I know in Brittain, yes.

But please remember that in much of the rest of the world copyright is a reaction to people, creators, getting in trouble over third party usage of their creations.

Leading to the idea that a creator should have the power to stop people from using their works for whatever the creator deems objectionable.

Under Danish law, if I make a happening for the purpose of making the local stamp collectors association, or anyone lose their collective cool and attack me, I will be dragged away and fined for disturbing the peace.

I really see no reason why stamp collectors should be differently protected than Muslims.

I would agree, however, that both stamp collectors and Muslims should be required to keep their cool, and that we should not enjoy any such protections against mere insult.

On the other hand this guy does his best to shove the burning stamps up the noses of the collectors, …

And authorities in Muslim countries abuse this to divert attention from their own abuses.

So yeah, I don’t know, it’s complicated.

Ah, but it isn’t really about religion.

It’s a simple question of who can ‘othered’? Who can be designated as victims?

So it’s not other religious groups, but specifically muslims.

It should be noted that the muslim idea of what the Koran is seems to put it on a significantly higher pidestal than where Christains place the Bible.

Higher even than what the more unhinged fringes of the sola scriptura crowd does.

And here in Denmark there’s a double standard where behaviour, that would result in being dragged away and fined if you insulted any other group, is just fine as long as you target muslims.

All of which is not to say that Erdogan isn’t also an asshole.

But then Erdogan is not quite all muslims.