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The old adage comes to mind:
Don't wrestle with a pig.
You both get dirty.
He enjoys it.
Not to call religious extremists pigs in any way, but they do have many large, poorly balanced chips on their collective shoulder, and killing seems to be in fashion.
Nor am I suggesting the non-fanatical roll over and be walked upon, but this cartoon exercise seems like a pointless mud-pit.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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