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To: dfwgator
If you ridicule someone for speaking about how they feel, then it is not free speech. That works for all parties. My concern is that making fun of those with other views is counter-productive.

Speaking up for your own views and opinions in an intelligent manner is worthwhile, ridiculing others is not.

Writing, calling, and attacking a family who has just lost a loved one will make us all look bad.
61 posted on 08/22/2003 12:14:45 PM PDT by suej
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To: suej
If you ridicule someone for speaking about how they feel, then it is not free speech

Ridiculing is not protected under free speech? Uh oh, better tell them political cartoonists to watch their backs.

Excuse me for trying to think logically, but if someone has the right to call a person a liar and a "whistle ass", and have that right protected as free speech, then calling that same person the village idiot must surely be free speech.

64 posted on 08/22/2003 12:24:14 PM PDT by JavaTheHutt ( Gun Control - The difference between Lexington Green and Tiennimen Square.)
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To: suej
"If you ridicule someone for speaking about how they feel, then it is not free speech."

What a bunch of bull hockey.

74 posted on 08/22/2003 1:22:03 PM PDT by MEGoody
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To: suej
Are you using one of DUh's sleeper cell accounts? This seems to be the only topic you've posted on in weeks.
77 posted on 08/22/2003 1:33:16 PM PDT by weegee
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