"Our ideas about openness, tolerance and freedom must be lived on the offensive. Voluntary self-limitation gives those who fight against our values a confirmation in advance that we will not stand behind them."
- Klaus Wowereit, openly-Gay mayor of Berlin, in response to Deutsche Oper's decision to cancel a production of Mozart's Idomeneo over a scene which featured a depiction of Mohammed: "Opera cancels over Muhammad scene", Washington Times
AI Outing Cranks, Mentally Ill
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"No mind is better than the precision of its concepts." -- Ayn Rand
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The headline and blurb of an article at *Rolling Stone* well describe a
tragic phen...
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