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Someone alleges a Koran flushing and what do we do? We expect, accept, and silently tolerate militant Muslim savagery — lots of it. We become the hangin' judge for the imbeciles whose negligence "triggered" the violence, but offer no judgment about the societal dysfunction that allows this grade of offense to trigger so cataclysmic a reaction.

Similar issues abound with regard to the infamous "racial slur" defense.

According to this theory, a black man who is called an offensive epithet, perhaps during a confrontation such as a traffic accident with no real racial content, is more or less justified in killing the name-caller, anybody standing nearby and perhaps the entire city block. Creating an entire new category of "justificable homicide."