Maybe if they burned other books alongside the Koran -- perhaps also a Bible, a Book of Mormon, and a Torah -- it would be a more thorough social experiment that shows which groups are broken.
Burn a Bible or a book a Book of Mormon and nothing happens, we already know that. Burn a Torah, and you'll end up spending 6 years in prison for "hate crime". People with small hats will not riot against society, but they will send all their lawyers and minions after you.
The Book Of Mormon already has a world-famous musical play that involves defacing and blaspheming the Book of Mormon.
"Natural experiments" exist, where the experimental conditions already exist in nature, and only need to be observed. We don't need to set up a double-blind, because people, individually but in large numbers, perform all those actions every day.
I recall one woman got kicked out of France for having an "Allah is gay" sign that was made to be identical to a "God is gay" sign that was at a preceding rally. So 1:1 experiments do exist, but you need not find them when evidence is so plentifully available in a general case.
Maybe if they burned other books alongside the Koran -- perhaps also a Bible, a Book of Mormon, and a Torah -- it would be a more thorough social experiment that shows which groups are broken.
Burn a Bible or a book a Book of Mormon and nothing happens, we already know that. Burn a Torah, and you'll end up spending 6 years in prison for "hate crime". People with small hats will not riot against society, but they will send all their lawyers and minions after you.
The Book Of Mormon already has a world-famous musical play that involves defacing and blaspheming the Book of Mormon.
"Natural experiments" exist, where the experimental conditions already exist in nature, and only need to be observed. We don't need to set up a double-blind, because people, individually but in large numbers, perform all those actions every day.
I recall one woman got kicked out of France for having an "Allah is gay" sign that was made to be identical to a "God is gay" sign that was at a preceding rally. So 1:1 experiments do exist, but you need not find them when evidence is so plentifully available in a general case.