Mike, the point you make seems implicit in NR’s decision to republish one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, along with one from Jyllands-Posten, above its editorial on the massacre. As a general matter we would not publish cartoons that we expected the adherents of a religion to find deeply insulting. This is, as you say, a matter of “politeness and gentlemanliness.” (It is relevant, of course, that we are not a satirical publication, and that satire by definition forsakes some measure of politeness and gentlemanliness.) But in the context of the massacre, the decision to republish acquires a different meaning. It becomes an act of defiance and a defense of the right to give offense without suffering anything worse than what our Constitution and other laws entitle equally free critics to mete out in return. It is neither an exercise in giving offense nor a defense of the worthiness of giving it.