[Rapscallion]

This is America and you damn well need to learn the rules.

And what are the rules of which you speak? Do you mean the rules of debate, or the rules of good behavior, or the rules of civil discourse? Did you possibly mean the Ten Commandments? Show me the rules you say I need to learn.

[numberonepal]

These are the rules. Pay close attention to the Amendments - particularly the first one. From reading that you will easily discern that folks can do or say whatever they please as long as it doesn't impose force or fraud on another individual. I haven't seen anything in there about "feelings" or "offensiveness".