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[maigret] Is More Internal. I Think If We Made More Of These I Might Let Him Out A Bit.

What Is Wrong With Inciting Intense Dislike Of A Religion If The Activities Or Teachings Of That Religion Are So Outrageous, Irrational Or Abusive Of Human Rights That They Deserve To Be Intensely Disliked?

[georges] Simenon Could Be Very Brave Like That. You Never Quite Know What You're Going To Get Or How The Story's Going To Be Told.

To Criticize A Person For Their Race Is Manifestly Irrational And Ridiculous, But To Criticize Their Religion, That Is A Right. That Is A Freedom. The Freedom To Criticize Ideas, Any Ideas - Even If They Are Sincerely Held Beliefs - Is One Of The Fundamental Freedoms Of Society. A Law Which Attempts To Say You Can Criticize And Ridicule Ideas As Long As They Are Not Religious Ideas Is A Very Peculiar Law Indeed.

The Good Thing About Those Original Credit Card Commercials Was That They Were Very "filmic", They Were Like Little Movies, So It Wasn't A Big Step To Think Well Maybe We Could Make A Big Movie Using This Character, Which We Eventually Did.