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Kasz216 on 08 September 2010
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sapphi_snake said:
Kasz216 said:

So... people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are bigots.  You're calling people with a mental disorder caused on by stress bigoted... I think you should look in the mirror on this one in who is acting bigoted.

Example, if a Mcdonalds employee went to a small neighberhood and shot up a bunch of people in it wearing his uniform.  Chances are, that if people who lived through that saw a Mcdonalds they would infact be caused lots of stress and other issues.

Does that make those people bigots?  Because they're "Equating all McDonalds employees as murders!"

I'm going to say... no.  Because they aren't equating all Mc Donalds employees as murders, looking at a Mcdonalds triggers such a reaction.

Now, McDonalds wants to build a McDonalds in this neighberhood and the land they could get is withing view of a place where said victims gather... others, who don't want these victims to go through more generously donate land a few blocks away.

Mc Donalds clearly has the right to still build there and in turn lend to agitating those people... but should they?

Why am I a bigot?

And what makes you think those people have PTSD? And why should that matter in any case?

You are acting like a bigot because you are calling people with PTSD bigots.

Because studies show that there are huge amounts of people with PTSD in that area due to the attacks?  I believe the Figure is like... a 15% baseline for that area, 4-5% over the nation as a whole, and that's a place where people go to work through their issues about that place getting knocked over... so yeah.  Plentry of reason.

And... why should people building a mosque care that by building it there they are going to cause lots of undue unrest, trouble and emotional pain to people?

I dunno, the same reason McDonalds wouldn't want to build in the place mentioend in the above example?

Or the same reason this chruch wouldn't want to burn a Qu'ran?  You know... the fact that it woul cause a lot of undue unrest, trouble and emotional pain to people. 

Common human compassion and decency.


Are the protestors the people with PTSD?  Maybe, maybe not.  Either way, the people with PTSD will be harmed by the mosque being there... and said people are ignroing it.

They have every right to ignore it... but it's a douchebag thing to do.  Far worse then a one time burning of one holy book.