Should i run this banner?

[MarkG]

vincent?

[notyoueither]

Aren't you misunderstood and persecuted?

[mapfi]

This discussion between you two is just hilarious but NYE is actually right. You're responsible for what you put up on your site and while it might be not your fault if somebody takes offense it's still your fault, because - and that's the important part - you're in advance accepting the fact that rather a few will be offended by it.
"responsibilty for an offense" as NYE pointed out is a fault. If you just put up something without knowing that people will be offended by it - then you'd just be responsible withoiut any fault on your side.
As I said - the banner is in my opinion not offensiv but just bad. And fortunately both of you are obviously agreeing on my post since you're not answering I'm kidding, so don't feel obliged to do so now, there's a right to ignore.

[MarkG]

nye, dont think so, but for the sake of making sense out of your post....

[MarkG]

Originally posted by mapfi
it's still your fault, because - and that's the important part - you're in advance accepting the fact that rather a few will be offended by it.

i'm not accepting anything. i choose to put up a banner cause i like it without any expectations on who will be offended or not

[notyoueither]

... so when are you going to make some sense?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by MarkG
i'm not accepting anything. i choose to put up a banner cause i like it without any expectations on who will be offended or not

And that certainly is your perogative. However, in this thread you asked for opinions. Don't b!tch about the results of your own initiatives.

[MarkG]

... so when are you going to make some sense?

said the man who's calling me "vincent" for unknown reasons...

Don't b!tch about the results of your own initiatives.

where do you see me complain?

[notyoueither]

Right Mark, you've been totally accepting and understanding of the people who say 'no' in this thread. NOT.

[MarkG]

there have been two types of negative responses to the banner
a) "i dont like it" responses to which i have accepted and never complained about
b) "i'm offended" responses which have come down to be from ignorance of the movie to which all that i have said is "it's a pitty"

one more time, lets go through some word definitions:
disagreement != complaint

[Az]

I am not offended, but I think it would be stupid, and tasteless. just like most of the banners here.

[Robert]

so I will be in fault for the reaction of ignorant people?

what's more obvious?
1. there are people who know who hitler was but don't know about the charly chaplin movie
2. there are people who know about the charly chaplin movie but have no clue about who hitler was.

You can be sure that you will offend people by this banner because it's certainly sure that people will not know about the movie but do know about hitler.

Since it's pretty clear on before that you will offend people, it is your fault if you do it, since that just means you're going to offend people on purpose.

And offending people on purpose is a big fault, unless you think it's cool to offend people. If that's the idea behind the banner, to offend people, go ahead.

If you think that people should know about the movie or are ignorant otherwise, just makes clear that you are ignorant yourself.

[mapfi]

CyberShy that's what I was trying to say too.
Aside from this, I think it's a must-know movie, though. If people only knew what they're missing!

[MarkG]

nice logic....

knowing you will offend people != offending people on purpose

[MarkG]

btw,

if you dont know the movie then by definition your are ignorant of the movie