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I do NOT use a tire iron to turn someone else's head into pulp.

No one suggested that you should, but it is important to know that there are people out there who will react in that manner and that one should not do things to provoke them.

23 posted on 05/09/2006 2:22:41 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")

it is important to know that there are people out there who will react in that manner and that one should not do things to provoke them.

I understand that no one on this thread is defending the beating (at least I hope). Still, because these thugs have such an extremely low threshold for what constitutes "provocation," maybe it is they - and not the gay tourists - who shouldn't be out in public.

48 posted on 05/09/2006 2:35:01 PM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)

No one suggested that you should, but it is important to know that there are people out there who will react in that manner and that one should not do things to provoke them.

I understand what you're saying, but the same argument has been used on a macro scale to "explain" 9/11. The libs love to tell us how our culture provoked the Jihadists, and that we had it coming.

60 posted on 05/09/2006 2:38:25 PM PDT by Denver Ditdat ("Deus Vult" is the answer to "Allahu Akbar")

No one suggested that you should, but it is important to know that there are people out there who will react in that manner and that one should not do things to provoke them.

Does that apply to knowing that there are people out there who will react to publishing certain cartoons of a certain religious icon as well? Should one not do that since it may provoke them?

69 posted on 05/09/2006 2:41:23 PM PDT by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)

it is important to know that there are people out there who will react in that manner and that one should not do things to provoke them

86 posted on 05/09/2006 2:51:09 PM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)