[elfman2]

"It's offensive to hear continually about how it's your living room and your rules, and then to be hit up for money. How many living rooms have you been in where the host passes the hat for the light bill?"

Irrelevant. Create your own "Freer Republic".

[alcuin]

Irrelevant. Create your own "Freer Republic".

Irrelevant? Read the whole thread--it's about the relevance of personal opinion.

And FR is "created" by ALL posters, including those whose knees don't jerk and who eschew cliches; if it wasn't, it wouldn't be FR. It's the source, degree, and consequences of dissent that this thread is about.