No need to comment, unless it helps explain your choice. Just a simple poll.
Is freedom of speech really worth potentially upsetting someone?
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Once upon a time there was a distributed messaging system that was governed by two basic rules.
1) Thou shalt not be too annoying.
2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.
Applied to the subject at hand, I believe there are some who are simply too easily upset. Beyond that there are some who appear to spend most of their days looking for something to get upset about. Because of that, a yes/no answer to the poll question though technically possible cannot be reflective of reality.
(edit) However, I still voted "yes" because if applied to myself I'd rather be upset than be silenced. (/edit)
1) Thou shalt not be too annoying.
2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.
Applied to the subject at hand, I believe there are some who are simply too easily upset. Beyond that there are some who appear to spend most of their days looking for something to get upset about. Because of that, a yes/no answer to the poll question though technically possible cannot be reflective of reality.
(edit) However, I still voted "yes" because if applied to myself I'd rather be upset than be silenced. (/edit)
Hell yes! The problem today is no one can stand up and tell it like it is or you will be punished even on OSA if the Mod don't agree it will be removed even though everyone agrees. You have no Freedom of speech any more!
There I said it. People like candy asses that bow down.
There I said it. People like candy asses that bow down.
It is a skill to tell someone they are wrong or stupid but making that person feel like they are right or smart.
Practice it
Practice it
I'm tired of BEING forced to be PC .
Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
Dumbest poll ever, shame on you. I hope you go bald.
I knew that. This wasnt an exercise in calling you out. Just another way to make the same point, since that thread was locked before it could be explained.
Just vote you heathen.
Exactly. Most of the time I choose to avoid being overtly offensive to others, if for no other reason than that's how I prefer to be treated myself. It's all about having a little respect for each other - if I want you to respect my rights and opinions, I need to be willing to respect yours as well, at least until you give me reason not to.
Your "freedom of speech" has never been infringed upon by OSA. Because you have no freedom of speech here. Freedom of speech protects you from the government. I'm guessing if the Westboro Baptist Church decided to set up shop on your front lawn to picket a soldier's funeral you would not have an issue with telling them to GTFO your property. That's not infringing on their FOS, it's you exercising your rights, which trump theirs.
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