Re: Rude replies

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kurttrail wrote:
> andy smart wrote:
>
>>kurttrail wrote:
>>
>>Serious question here Kurt, and I'm geniunely interested in your
>>views.
>>
>>
>>>But I happen to be a traditionalist American. I believe in an
>>>absolute right to free speech, and will not stand aside quietly when
>>>I see someone trying to infringe on it.
>>>
>>
>>How does America, with this attitude to free speech also manage to be
>>the most litigious on Earth?
>
>
> America no longer has this attitude about free speech, and hasn't since
> for a very long time.
>
>
>>If you have this right to absolute free
>>speech why do the courts spend so much time processing liable/slander
>>cases - I never understood how this can happen. If you have the right
>>to absolute free speech then how can you ever liable or slander
>>somebody?
>
>
> I believe in free speech as written in the Constitution, unfortunately
> the government doesn't.
>
>
>>Does the right to free speech always overide the social need to be
>>tactful and polite.
>
>
> My view, yes. Even under the US government view, yes. Otherwise Dick
> Cheney would have been impeached when he told a Senator to go F*^k
> himself last year.
>
> Of course had you had your way, Dick would have been!
>
> And I voted for Kerry, but Dick had every right to express himself.
> That Dick is a dick is no surprise to me. That I'm an a**hole is not a
> shocker either.
>
>
>>I know that you belive it does, but is that true
>>of US society as a whole?
>
>
> Unless or until the American Taliban, the Christian Right, gets its way.
> There is no law that prohibits rudeness. And as I demonstrate, I can
> follow the rules here regarding profane speech, as I mung up the most
> profane ones, yet still get my point across.
>
>
>>I use a lot of message boards/online
>>communities and of course a lot of the users are Americans; but they
>>are also very concerned about being tactful and not hurting the
>>feelings of others when expressing their opinions.
>
>
> Good for them. That would be their choice. And I'm not trying to stop
> you or anyone one else from posting politely. I'm not a fascist trying
> to impose my sensibilities onto others. I leave that to the PC police!
>
>
>>Would you say you
>>or they comply with the ideas of the American majority on this?
>
>
> Majority rule is nothing by the tyranny of the Majority!
>
> And that's why America doesn't have a government based on a true
> democracy, but a constitutional republic. America's Founding Fathers
> were well aware that a true democracy was really the tryanny of the
> majority over the minority.
>
> Unfortunately, modern day Rightards have forgotten that lesson, and
> think that since they hold a majority of the government, that they have
> the right to bully the minority.
>
> Like all fascist eventually tyranize the minority of society, so does
> the majority rule.
>
Thanks
.

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