Free Speech 101 (For DU Beginners) [View All]

[SidneyCarton]

I have the right to express my opinion.

You have the right to think my opinion is stupid and tell me so.

I have the right to tell you that your reasons for thinking my opinion is stupid are even dumber.

You have the right to tell me to go to hell.

I have the right to not give a damn.

Either of us has the right to put the other on ignore if we can't stand what the other one writes.



It's really quite simple folks, people who disagree with you, and argue with you aren't stifiling your freedom of speech, they're exercising their own. It is assumed that the majority of us rec or unrec threads based on some personal judgment of their individual merits, though there are likely random rec'ers and unrec'ers as well, such is life. Opinions are like armpits, we all have them, and their odor is likely to offend some of us.