If an unprofessional drunk expects folk to pay money to go to a gig and watch him/her act like an arse

Johny Vegas makes a good living out of it:-) And he's a professional unprofessional!

Back to the subject in hand though. Unfortunate though it is most critisism will degenerate into argument and most argument will lapse very quickly into unaccepatable behaviour such as mudslinging or violence. Alerting others to someone elses bad behaviour is critisism of that someone else and they have the right to defend against it. In polite society or that goverened by rules, such as governmental debates, it is simply a case put forward; a reply and a decision based on those arguments. End of story usualy.

In normal society and to an even greater extent on the impersonal pages of a discussion forum these polite rules often fail. The answer? Possibly moderation, possibly self government, possibly anarchy. Who knows? I'm certainly not going to visit that debate again! My personal view is that all points of view are valid and should be put forward for the rest of us to make our own minds up. When that degenerates into an 'I'm right and all others are wrong' food fight I go home!

Cheers

DtG