If you punch someone in the nose, Rapaire, the responsibility is your own. That is where the line between the free exercise of speech and the interference with others' lives in the civic commmons is crossed. Not that it wouldn't be understandable in some cases.

There is a world of difference between stating the truth: "I have always been taught to believe that all ______ people are evil"; and stating the obvious falsehood, "all ______ people are evil".

Until that simple discrimination is understood, public discourse will become the mishmash that you see, for example, on the BNP thread.


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