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Old 09-05-2008, 07:20 PM
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Default But please let's be careful--

--that we don't go to far in the other direction.

Any post about any subject is potentially annoying/disturbing/triggering to someone, somewhere. But part of living in a democracy is that we have to have a certain tolerance for opinions and the like we find distasteful. The balance between letting things come into the light and holding from view those same things on the grounds that they may offend is tenuous at best. (Remember the cartoons in the Danish newspapers?)

My opinion in this area in fairly well-known from other arenas--as long as a post is not libelous, leaving the site open to suit, a lot of latitutde should be allowed, as sunlight is the best disenfectant, you can't discuss what you can't engage in, and pushing things under the rug never did anything but lump up the rug . . .and make a lot of people trip.
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