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To: neolib who wrote (28370)	9/8/2006 9:44:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541344

I launched that part, and was referring to denying a fact, I could care less if the fact were a crime. I initiated the "denying the Holocaust is more offensive" line of argument. To me denying a solidly established horrible crime, esp. when living victims of the crime can hear you, is more offensive than denying a scientific theory. Denying the theory might be wrong, it might even be stupid, but it isn't offensive in the same way. If you can't agree with that in any absolute sense, you probably at least recognize that saying "the Holocaust never happens" is in fact likely to offend more people than saying "their is an intelligent designer of life on Earth". I think the disparity is legitimate, perhaps you don't. Even if you give no legitimacy to the idea that the claim is rightfully considered more offensive, its not unreasonable for a think tank like AEI, to make more of an effort to remove ideas they consider offensive from their site, than ideas they merely consider questionable, or even factually wrong.