Argus Posted September 19, 2006 Report Posted September 19, 2006 Sure you did. You might not have outright suggested we make it illegal, but you're suggesting people should self-censor, and there's more than a hint in there that if they won't do that someone ought to do it for them. If you want to call giving a thought to the consequenses-both positive and negative- before you speak "self-censorship", then yeah, I can see how you'd interpret my comments the way you have. But I wouldn't call it that. I'd call it common sense. Let me put it this way: If you want to call a group of bikers " a bunch of fags" then that's your right and I would not support any violent retribution upon your person. But I won't have much sympathy for you when such retribution is enacted, given that a baseball bat upside the head is the all too predictable result of your excercise in free speech. It's not a good analogy. I'm not suggesting one should go up to a group of Muslims and start calling their prophet a fag without expecting this personal, in-your-face insult mightn't lead to violence. However, if you wrote an opinion piece saying the prophet was a pervert for taking a nine year old wife, that's another rmatter entirely. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
Biblio Bibuli Posted October 4, 2006 Report Posted October 4, 2006 If you want to call a group of bikers " a bunch of fags" then that's your right and I would not support any violent retribution upon your person. But I won't have much sympathy for you when such retribution is enacted, given that a baseball bat upside the head is the all too predictable result of your excercise in free speech. I couldn't agree more. It's stupid to provoke someone who is much stronger. Quote When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift GO IGGY GO!
jbg Posted October 6, 2006 Report Posted October 6, 2006 If you want to call a group of bikers " a bunch of fags" then that's your right and I would not support any violent retribution upon your person. But I won't have much sympathy for you when such retribution is enacted, given that a baseball bat upside the head is the all too predictable result of your excercise in free speech. I couldn't agree more. It's stupid to provoke someone who is much stronger. I guess you believe that all non-Muslims are thus guests in the world, to be allowed such freedom as they allow. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
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