Comments on: It’s fairly likely that this video will be flagged to death on YouTube

By: Kerrick

Kerrick — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:55:06 +0000

I was also going to add that burial is a perfectly respectful thing to do with a holy book that you have no further use for. What strikes me about this video is that someone thinks this is a way to demonstrate disrespect for religion, and other idiots will probably agree and be offended, when in reality the most interesting thing about it is the demonstration of a rather inefficient, if nicely sentimental, composting technique.

By: Mike Olson

Mike Olson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:45:42 +0000

You’re right, he only demonstrated the spirit of it. Thanks for correcting me, now I know who actually said it and why.

By: stripey_cat

stripey_cat — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:14:47 +0000

Tuco, I’d have chosen either Aconitum napellus, or almost anything with the specific epithet “foetidus”. Plants that, when you touch them, cover you in either a nasty neurotoxin or stinky stuff.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:09:16 +0000

“In fact, he argued that we should stand back and allow it, because of free speech rights.” I also made that argument.

“The difference between you and him being that PZ Myers is actually consistent when talking about free speech.”

No. PZ and I made almost exactly the same exact arguments. Although I admit (as I did before) that my first posting on this was not very clear because it was only a pointer to another blog (D. Brayton’s) talking about it, any one paying modest attention would see that PZ and I do not differ on this at all.

The difference is that there are those who will read something by certain writers and figure they must also think that, but read the same exact thing by other writers and think they should not think that, because of what they’ve been told to think or what they’ve come to believe that they should think based on some sub-cultural phenomenon. And you, “Beaker” are a classic case.

By: beaker

beaker — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:59:36 +0000

“I dare you to say the same things you said to me to PZ, on his site.”
I don’t have to, because PZ Myers did not make the same argument. He never made the argument that religious buildings should not be built in New York. In fact, he argued that we should stand back and allow it, because of free speech rights. He stated that we not only have no legal cause to interfere with the building of it, but that we also have no moral cause to interfere with it.

The difference between you and him being that PZ Myers is actually consistent when talking about free speech.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:34:53 +0000

He wears a suit while gardening? Does Trophy Wife know about this?

By: sailor

sailor — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:46:41 +0000

Burying books is much better than burning them, the carbon gets released much more slowly. Taking them to the recycling bin might be better still.

By: Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:09:10 +0000

Except Voltaire didn’t actually write that. He didn’t write “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” either.

/Quote Nazi

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/l/liberty.htm

By: Radioactive afikomen

Radioactive afikomen — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:19:12 +0000

Interestingly, burial is how any text mentioning the name(s) of God is traditionally disposed of in Judaism. I still remember my parents burying an exceedingly old copy of the Haggadah in the backyard.

By: Charles Sullivan

Charles Sullivan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:30:18 +0000

It’s just a book, and it’s his book.

I’m getting tired of respecting religion.