[Mad Dawg]

Your being upset in itself does not impose a moral obligation on anyone.

Your opinion that something is "inappropriate" is your opinion. However, "inappropriate" is a weasel word. In complaining to the moderators it seems that what you MEAN to say is that you think it is WRONG. If that's what you think, why don't you say so?

"Inappropriate" is too vague a word to discuss. Your being upset is as indisputable as it is irrelevant and incompetent to show any thing. Your being upset MIGHT be because there's something wrong with you -- like an affective disorder. (I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just mentioning this to give an example of how your being upset is a morally neutral fact.)

You are retreating to an argumentative tactic beloved of liberals: You claim emotional distress and expect somebody else to do something ab out it; you call something inappropriate as though "appropriateness" were a mystical and undefined virtue, and expect on those grounds that others change their behavior to suit your desires.

That is morally wrong.

[pookie18]

To those of you who commented re paulat's complaint...your comments were well written & I could've (had I not been golfing) stated many of the same ideas myself.

To all who don't understand:

1. Anyone who reads Today's Toons on a regular basis knows that not all subject matter is meant to be funny...e.g., many entries involve either straight news stories or click-on links to them. There are, & will continue to be, all levels of ideas presented. OTOH, I do edit out most bashing of the administration, Republicans, Conservatives, etc.

2. I do not do photoshops. The picture in question was taken either from another FR thread or from any number of sites from which I regularly gather material.

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