Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
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oopsHumpty, you're right; piston_bloke, I'm sorry.
I like the sound of Dawkins' point, however it's not a practically defensible one. To extrapolate slightly, he's saying that each belief system chooses one outlook and excludes all the others, which is why he won't choose one of those belief systems.
However, atheism itself is a belief system of sorts: a belief in the non-existence of a god or gods; merely a belief because if it could be conclusively proved then nobody could question it.
So what he's saying is basically he observes a load of mutually exclusive belief systems and has chosen his own, which also turns out to be a belief system which denies all others.
By his argument, to the same extent we're also all theists.
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