The Pencil is stronger than the Pen?

Some more hubub over cartoons.

Assuming you’ve read that snippet, should they really be fined? Why bother with it? Should we care what other people think about things that are fairly well established facts?

As far as I’m concerned we shouldn’t. If you want to believe the sky is green, go ahead. If you want to go around and claim that the Earth is banana shaped, I’d love to hear your reasoning. And if you want to go around demanding Earth is 6000 years old well, I’d rather you just shut up and go back to Staphorst but I don’t really care whether or not you believe that, you have every right to. And I have every right to ask you to not talk to me about it if I don’t want you to.

As they’ve not taken out a nation wide advert claiming this fiction, I don’t think they’re bothering anyone else with their little fictonal figment of their imagination… and even if they did, common sense and the general WW2 history education you get in primary school is enough to fight this kind of bull. Let them have their fun and get on with more interesting things in the world like fighting hunger or disease? That sounds like money and time better spent.

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