Posted: Jul 06, 2011 9:31 am
Animavore wrote:And I'm not with PZ here at all.However, the existence of greater crimes does not excuse lesser crimes, and no one has even tried to equate this incident to any of the horrors above. What these situations demand is an appropriate level of response: a man who beats a woman to death has clearly committed an immensely greater crime than a man who harrasses a woman in an elevator; let us fit the punishment to the crime. Islamic injustice demands a worldwide campaign of condemnation of the excesses and inhumanity of that religion.
Lesser crime? The guy in the elevator committed no crime. Unless making a tit of yourself is now a crime?
Yep, I've not even heard any evidence of harrassment in this case.
With 'lesser crimes', PZ Myers is talking about social faux pas? That's how I read it.