Update: Trivial prediction: more Muslims will die because of "protests" and riots because of the Danish cartoons than non-Muslims. Matt McIntosh has posted a piece titled We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us at my other blog. It has spawned a lot of comments. Many people were offended by the way Matt couched his thought experiment and the character of his exposition. I jumped in to defend him, and below is a somewhat florid summation at the end of the thread (excuse the lack of capitalization, it is not an affectation, just a way to save keystrokes when I'm entering comments):
ok, here is my opinion, not to make too much of a stretched analogy, but consider rene descartes. though i'm more of an 'empiricist' than a 'rationalist' in sentiment, descartes and his rationalist project were magnificant extrapolations of what makes us human, our ability to abstract and ...
