In a joint statement released earlier today. Here is the core of it:
Disagreement is inevitable, but bullying and harassment are not. If we want secularism and atheism to gain respect, we have to be able to disagree with each other without trying to destroy each other.
In other words we have to be able to manage disagreement ethically, like reasonable adults, as opposed to brawling like enraged children who need a nap. It should go without saying, but this means no death threats, rape threats, attacks on people’s appearance, age, race, sex, size, haircut; no photoshopping people into demeaning images, no vulgar epithets.
This all sounds pretty uncontroversial to me, not unlike the rules which I generally expect to be followed here.
Is there anything in that statement that you find objectionable in some way? Please leave a comment below.
