Hope people can be acknowledged by the quality of their character, and less by their appearances. Humanity would be truly evolved past primal emotional instincts.
Agreed and of course I agree with freedom of speech, yet I also believe in calling a spade a spade and bringing this rhetoric to light. The more we "talk it away" as just another mentally ill guy, the more we do ourselves a big disfavor. I wish we could be "evolved past primal emotional instincts" too, but that does tend to underpin most of our actions and behaviors.. Rational belief is only one side of ourselves, truly - the emotional aspect is huge. Yet I too wish we could address these things. From some of the comments on this post, it's clear that we are a long way away from being able to have these discussions in a respectful clear manner.