As I learned from your Zilla post (I would use the full name, but if you subtract the obvious ...) you require Christians to follow logic into perdition. I am not so strict, since ultimately religion is not about the mind.
Similarly, we have different attitudes toward satire. While I am usually the last to affect or countenance excessive sensitivity andor a victim mentality, imo the Landover treatment crosses the line into simple bad taste. We will disagree about this; even so I don't want to dissect that.
Satire is a form of ridicule. I live my life by two simple maxims :
1) Be right. (This refers to factual items. If I don't qualify something as uncertain or subjective opinion, I have an obligation to be correct.)
2) Be nice.
Satire plays fast&loose with number 2, and as a result it often makes me wince. Imo there are better, gentler, ultimately more grown-up ways to make a point. Belittling the opponent gains nothing except a boost for the belittler's ego ... in other words, still nothing.
I am educated, perhaps to a fault. Even so I don't often enjoy satire, regardless of whose ox is getting inconveniently truthed. So, your closing declaration notwithstanding -
Sancho! My armor!!
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