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Augen on 19 December 2014
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BraLoD said:

The thing is, if the movie got released and people died in a attack there, everyone would now be saying "how could Sony release this?" and a tragedy would have happened.

When someone says there is a bomb on a place, why do they isolate it? To avoid the danger to people. Even if there was never a bomb there to begin with.
Why would anyone want to show a movie there when they said it would be bombed or something like this?

Obama doesn't have a problem with his people death? Of course he have!
Stop this "my cock is bigger than yours" attitude and understand lives could have been saved because of this. Even a war could have been avoided because of this. A fucking war!
Allowing your people to be in danger over making a safety choice, how could anyone be even thinking about it?
The theaters did the right choice, Obama is full of shit in his speech.

Wanna counter the terrorism? Okay, that's fine, that kind of ridiculous thing should really never happen, it's a comedy movie and look what it scalated to, it's clear things have to be made, but defying it with your people lives is not a good way to do it.

I would disagree with them in their logic. It should be "How could North Korea do this?" as they made the choice to murder people because they were offended.

North Korea in this instance didn't say "We will attack cinema at 14 Main Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma" they made a big vague threat about all over the country. If they had been specific, we would have inspected that place.  Keep in mind they have made threats in the past, it's called sabre rattling. Know what we did? Nothing. And nothing happened, no one died. So, yes, we took a chance they weren't dumb enough to commit an act of war over petty differences.

If a war had happened (which I highly doubt) the blame would be on North Korea for attacking the US.  Anyone who says, "Well, some of their citizens did make a movie that is offensive so those people deserve to die, and they should just never offend anyone." is far removed from my line of thinking.

Makes me think of the abortion issue and how people threaten and bomb clincs and kill doctors.  We risk those lives every day because abortion offends some people deeply.  The cost has been lives, but again, we put the focus on those that commit the acts of violence, not those that offend beliefs.

Again, an artist in a free society should not be beholden to the sensibilities of a tiny percent.  I get offended all the time, and I imagine many people do, it never excuses violence or threats of violence.

Note: I realise this is getting impassioned. I have zero issue with you BraLoD, seem a nice person and I know you mean well. Think we can respectively disagree on this topic.