If there is free speech, Jed, then there’s free reaction to that speech.
So, you don’t give an idiot a freebie for saying the malicious.
There are consequences in life for our actions, and Joe Smith is free to walk in tomorrow and call his boss a stupid jerk. And his boss is free to respond.
Absolutely. My point exactly. Couldn’t agree more.
The best and most effective discipline is always to let natural consequences occur. Parents need to know that.
Works in the real world, too.
We’ve become such politically-correct pansies that society intervenes by giving the errant a pass or, conversely, lowering the boom prematurely.
If we still had a solid common ethos, the approval or disapproval of a prudent and sober society would keep things in check, shame the shameful.
We’ve lost that. Too bad.