Yvain's http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/ was about Draw Mohammed Day, which is not just about obscene depictions of Mohammed (some people draw stick figures, for example). I think the people doing that believe it is more important to protest about the encroachment on free speech than it is to avoid upsetting Muslims. Note that Yvain withdrew part of his argument in the face of Vladimirs' point about utility monsters and Schelling: http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/3y0k.
Personally, I wouldn't draw Mohammed but I support the right of others to do so if they wish. I believe that as a matter of harm reduction, such pictures should have trigger warnings. That'd be my Schelling point (if that's an accurate use of the term): people get to make the pictures, but they shouldn't make other people look at them. If the mere existence of such things is too much for some Muslims, that's tough. If the people making the pictures insist on their right to draw them in chalk on pavements, they're being pretty rude.
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Date: 2012-10-01 11:19 pm (UTC)Personally, I wouldn't draw Mohammed but I support the right of others to do so if they wish. I believe that as a matter of harm reduction, such pictures should have trigger warnings. That'd be my Schelling point (if that's an accurate use of the term): people get to make the pictures, but they shouldn't make other people look at them. If the mere existence of such things is too much for some Muslims, that's tough. If the people making the pictures insist on their right to draw them in chalk on pavements, they're being pretty rude.