Summary

In October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French teacher, was murdered following a false accusation by a 13-year-old student who claimed he’d shown anti-Muslim bias. The girl had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.

In reality, Paty’s lesson on free speech included optional viewing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but he hadn’t excluded anyone. The student’s story triggered a social media campaign led by her father, who, along with others, is now on trial for inciting hatred and connections to Paty’s attacker, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen.

The school will be named the Samuel Paty School from next year.

  • @Carvex
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    7717 days ago

    It will be a glorious day in the name of Humans when we finally dump the dumb shit and act like we control our own actions and future

    • Flax
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      -20017 days ago

      And then people start raping animals because no more rules

      • @[email protected]
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        8617 days ago

        … If there were no rules you’d rape animals? Maybe you should go to church, but don’t pretend we’re all like you

        • @[email protected]
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          No they certainly shouldn’t go to church. The next thing they’ll be doing is beheading people for wearing the wrong color socks. They need a therapist not a preacher.

            • @nomous
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              617 days ago

              Now now, we don’t know they’ve committed any crimes, just that they would if they weren’t superstitious.

              Besides, even (especially) inmates can benefit from a little therapy.

        • Flax
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          -5017 days ago

          No, I’m not sexually attracted to animals. But if there’s no objective morality, then what’s wrong with raping animals?

            • Flax
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              -3917 days ago

              What’s wrong with it if morality is subjective and I’m my own god?

              • @Maalus
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                2717 days ago

                Who told you you were the one deciding what’s moral and what isn’t? Just because objective morality doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean morality at all doesn’t exist. Your argument is flawed from the start. But hey, you do you, if existence of god is the only thing stopping you from being a total psycho then keep on trucking buddy.

                  • @Maalus
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                    1817 days ago

                    Because “morality” comes from what you have been taught as a child, and what is acceptable in a specific society / country. Hence why Americans do shit that is considered immoral in Europe and vice versea. That’s why there are people who actually do the things you said you wanted to do in the posts above. That’s why bloodthirsty dictators exist. That’s why people who grew up in different environments have different values. What’s immoral to the Amish will be moral to a Muslim. But you, a single random person don’t get to decide “from now on we do XYZ”. XYZ needs to be accepted in society to then be taught to people further and instilled over generations.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        6517 days ago

        Are rules the only thing keeping you from raping animals right now? Because that says more about you than the rest of the world.

        • Flax
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          -9117 days ago

          If there is no God, then morality doesn’t exist.

          • @SkyezOpen
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            5417 days ago

            And that’s why you are not a good person. Most people don’t need the threat of eternal hellfire to empathize and understand that it’s bad to hurt people.

            • Flax
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              -5417 days ago

              That’s because there is a God and we have a moral compass that’s divinely designed. But without God, it can still be overridden. Everyone has committed evil at some point in their lives.

              • @[email protected]
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                1316 days ago

                Your beliefs are not supported by anything other than an old book. Shit, Newtons theories of gravity have more evidence for them than your boom of fairytale and we’ve still discredited them. Regardless of the prominence of belief in the Christian God and its pervasiveness in western culture, that does not mean that morality does not exist without God unless you come at it from a specifically platonist philosophy. And therein we see the problem: your subscription to one form of ancient philosophy and denial that other ways of thinking even exist.

                • Flax
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                  -516 days ago

                  Most of history isn’t supported by anything other than an old book. You can’t compare it to gravity.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    315 days ago

                    I also know that history doesn’t make metaphysical claims about the nature of the universe and concepts such as morality. Science is our best way of understanding the world, not voodoo. That’s why I mentioned gravity.

          • @Duamerthrax
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            The religious do not have a monopoly on morality, ethics or the social contract. If they did, the secular people wouldn’t be outraged whenever a religious leader got caught diddling a kid.

            • Flax
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              -1216 days ago

              If I had a penny for every time someone on here used the sexual abuse of children to try and debunk the resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I’d have enough to buy a sandwich.

              • @Duamerthrax
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                Hypothetically, even if Jesus came back from the dead, what does that have to do with his self described “followers” being child molesters? What does that have to do with non believers being outraged at the various denominations reluctant at confronting the molesters?

          • @[email protected]
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            1916 days ago

            Did you read the article? Because I think the person beheading the guy had strong “religious morals”…

              • @nyctre
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                So not only did you weep when you read the bible, but you also promptly forgot everything it said and proceeded to judge others despite Jesus’ words. What a good christian. Please go away.

                • Flax
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                  -816 days ago

                  Huh? When did I judge others?

                  • @nyctre
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                    416 days ago

                    “that’s Islam” isn’t judgy to you? As if beheading someone is the average answer to stuff in the quran. Also, remember that the bible and the quran are both based on the same stuff. They’re not as different as you’d like to believe. It’s literally just a bible with some added texts which. Both of which are barbaric due to them being outdated.

                    Also, I suggest you reread Ecclesiastes 5:2 for another example of how you’re sinning in this thread.

          • JustEnoughDucks
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            1416 days ago

            Wow, just tell everyone that you are a sociopath with no conscience or empathy?

            If you have no morality without pedophiles and a global child abuse rings threatening you with torture for eternity, then you are a horrible person all around with or without religion.

      • @IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION
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        4517 days ago

        are old fairy tales the only thing keeping you from banging goats???

      • modifier
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        3717 days ago
        1. Not all rules come from imaginary gods
        2. Most people don’t need rules to keep them from harming others
        • Flax
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          -6117 days ago
          1. Then where do they come from, if there’s no objective morality.

          2. Not true, abortion is becoming rampant because political factions are trying to change a moral fact. Nazi Germany also attacked the Church and started allowing the dehumanisation of Jews through secularism.

          • knightly the Sneptaur
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            3417 days ago

            Then where do they come from, if there’s no objective morality.

            They come from people, of course. Here’s a history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence#History

            Not true, abortion is becoming rampant because political factions are trying to change a moral fact.

            False, abortion rates in the US have been in decline since the 80’s:

            • @2xar
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              1617 days ago

              His point about Nazi’s attacking the Church is also blatantly false BTW. Nazi’s had a bit of a conflict with the Catholic church at the beginning, but they quickly reconciled and pretty much enabled them. Nazi’s also created their own version of Christianity, the biggest difference to other branches being that they claimed Jesus wasn’t actually jew, but of Aryan descent, and Hitler was the new Messiah:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity

          • @Cypher
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            2517 days ago

            NAZI Germany was Christian and endorsed by the Pope you absolute clown

            • Flax
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              -3117 days ago

              The Nazis were absolutely NOT endorsed by the Pope. Romanist bishops were often jailed for speaking out.

                • Flax
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                  -1617 days ago

                  Nazi breaches of the agreement began almost as soon as it had been signed and intensified afterwards, leading to protest from the Church, including in the 1937 Mit brennender Sorge encyclical of Pope Pius XI. The Nazis planned to eliminate the Church’s influence by restricting its organizations to purely religious activities.

                  Read your own article.

                  • @Cypher
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                    1617 days ago

                    Oh no! Leopards ate their faces. What a shame. Who could have seen this coming from fascists.

          • Morality is a product of civilisation and community. It’s the ability of groups to decide on a single set of rules by which they would lime to be treated by, as breach of those rules can cause physical or emotional harm. And then there’s simple evolution, where certain “moral rules” allowed civilisations to survive and thrive better than others.

            At no point is “god” required here.

          • @nyctre
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            916 days ago

            Morality comes from the simple shit such as “I don’t like that…maybe I shouldn’t do it to others!” And stuff like “we’re stronger together”. Which even the creatures with tiny brains have managed to figure out before you. Congratulations.

      • @Tyfud
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        3617 days ago

        Morality is not derived from religion. Society has moved well past that.

        If you don’t understand then you lack education, but that’s the only reason. You are not in the right here.

        • Flax
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          Clearly not since society’s idea of morality keeps changing. So it shows if there’s no God, there’s no morality.

          • @2xar
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            2017 days ago

            Religious morality keeps changing as well. A few hundred years ago according to Christianity it was morally right to use black people as slaves, because they had no souls. Luckily, society has progressed and gradually it became immoral to enslave people all over the world. In the end, Christianity had no choice but to accept this - although it took some wars to convince them everywhere about it.

            • Flax
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              -1817 days ago

              Where does the Bible say black people don’t have souls?

              • @nomous
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                1217 days ago

                This fucking guy.

      • @Blumpkinhead
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        3417 days ago

        You… you should not be allowed at the petting zoo…

      • @[email protected]
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        2616 days ago

        If you need a make believe story to prevent you from doing that then you are the problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        2317 days ago

        Humans already rape animals on an industrial scale. That’s what artificial insemination is. Religion didn’t stop that.

      • @[email protected]
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        2216 days ago

        The fact that raping animals is illegal is not the reason I don’t rape animals. If the only thing stopping you from committing horrific crimes is a belief in the sky man then I suggest you remove yourself from the general population (become a hermit) so us normal people don’t have to worry about you losing faith in your invisible friend and going berserk at a petting zoo.

      • @Cyclist
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        1816 days ago

        You’re funny. Now, back under your bridge with you.

      • @ikidd
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        1717 days ago

        I’d hoped this was missed sarcasm then I checked the profile. Its verifiable stupidity.

      • @[email protected]
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        Or people commit genocide because of a command from an entity we just assume is the source of all morality and therefore their actions and commands cannot be immoral by definition.

        • Ogmios
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          -1817 days ago

          How about committing genocide because genetic science proves that your race has superior genes? The problem is with people’s behaviours themselves, regardless of what excuses someone uses to justify them.

          • @[email protected]
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            1417 days ago

            We can have a discussion about the moral frameworks where that would be wrong but an absolute moral giver allows for no such discussion.

            • Ogmios
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              -1017 days ago

              Discussion is absolutely possible as to interpretations, specifically amongst those who actually hold the reigns of power.

              • @[email protected]
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                717 days ago

                Interpretation can be possible, but often the driver doesn’t seem to be a genuine seeking of a moral truth but working backwards to avoid morally unpalatable conclusions or outright cherry picking and ignoring certain parts of a text. I see that as a tacit admission that morals don’t actually come from the text itself but maybe there’s something I’m missing as I’m far from an expert.

                • Ogmios
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                  -317 days ago

                  No matter how divinely inspired any text may be, it will ultimately suffer from the imperfections of the limited human ability to convey ideas amongst each other, and over thousands of years it becomes corrupt. This is obviously exacerbated by those who would deliberately seek to derive power from it, in ignorance of any truth which may have been professed at the origin.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    517 days ago

                    I agree with you on this one for sure. That’s one of the reasons I think that a text is not a particularly good foundation for an absolute system of morals. I don’t know why we need to mess around with interpretations in that case.

      • @frunch
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        Lol make sure to check out this guys posting history for more zany fun, this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this guys animal rape fantasies