Reply #86: The Essence Of A Free Society, Ma'am

[The Magistrate]

Is accepting offense without violent reaction, and understanding that what is important to you may not be even a trifle to someone else. One of the maxims you cited sums it pretty well, to me: "What each sect considers gross profanity must nonetheless be tolerated in the larger public." No one has the right to expect other people to act as they do, or more precisely, to try and prevent other people acting differently then they do. Just as people who think abortion is abomination are perfectly free not to have one, Moslems who believe a picture of the Prophet is abomination are perfectly free not to draw one. But past that person's own actions such an enforcement of belief cannot extend.