This is a very specific situation and I think trying to generalize it doesn't work.
Magazine does something strictly forbidden by Islamic law.
Angers Muslims all over the world.
Also angers some insane extremists with a cell close to the magazine.
Magazine keeps posting pictures that get more and more crude.
Worldwide anger persists, since again, what they are doing is against Islamic law.
Insane extremists (with a long history of brazen violence) warn them to stop.
Magazine ignores the threat.
Magazine is warned again and ignores the threat.
Today happens.
Is anyone surprised?
One of the shooters has surrendered. I hope they catch the other two soon and that all three of them rot in jail cells.
But I'm maintaining that the magazine editor might have used better judgment considering who he was dealing with and the fact that they were right in his back yard.
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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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