{"id":11443,"date":"2010-07-23T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/23\/mel-gibson-misplaced-moral-enthusiasm-and-real-threats\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:18:14","slug":"mel-gibson-misplaced-moral-enthusiasm-and-real-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/23\/mel-gibson-misplaced-moral-enthusiasm-and-real-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson, Misplaced Moral Enthusiasm, and Real Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Mel Gibson is&#0160;in the news again.&#0160; What I said about him on 1 August 2006 bears repeating:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">What&#39;s worse: Driving while legally drunk at 87 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone, or making stupid anti-Semitic remarks? The former, obviously. And yet a big stink is being made about&#0160; Gibson&#39;s drunken rant. I call this misplaced moral enthusiasm. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Calling a Jew a bad name won&#39;t kill him, but running him over in your speeding 2006 Lexus LS 430 will. On the one hand, offensive words that no reasonable person could take seriously; on the other hand, a deed that could get people killed. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here is what Gibson said: &quot;The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,&quot; and, addressing the arresting officer, &quot;Are you a Jew?&quot; Now compare Gibson with Iran&#39;s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who repeatedly has called for the destruction of the State of Israel. Ahmadinejad&#39;s is speech that incites unspeakable violence, unlike Gibson&#39;s drunken rant which is no threat to anyone. So let&#39;s forget about Gibson, and concentrate on real threats. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson is&#0160;in the news again.&#0160; What I said about him on 1 August 2006 bears repeating: What&#39;s worse: Driving while legally drunk at 87 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone, or making stupid anti-Semitic remarks? The former, obviously. And yet a big stink is being made about&#0160; Gibson&#39;s drunken rant. I call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/23\/mel-gibson-misplaced-moral-enthusiasm-and-real-threats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mel Gibson, Misplaced Moral Enthusiasm, and Real Threats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-morality-and-legality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}