Yeah, one post attacking Hillary... now how many has Bobodor done attacking Bush? 200? 300?
Hardly in the same class, is it?
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:27,
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Hardly in the same class, is it?
You shouldn't really be casting stones though,even if you only did it once. It doesn't help the case.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:31,
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Maybe not, but 1 does not equal 300and that is one of the facts that some people here fail to grasp. There are degrees, not just absolutes.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:34,
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but who sets the degrees, in the grand scheme of things,does producing 300 thought processes using technicques taught and freely available in a free and deomcratic society really have any relevance when judged against just one.
Simply, the notion of 'freedom' of speech throughout a chosen medium is what shows that as a 'civilised' nation we can take such critique and move on - its doesnt mean to say that 300 posts represents the majority - we have the choice of 'not listening or reasoning and following our own path' - to a greater degree than most do
(Simply, the notion of 'freedom' of speech throughout a chosen medium is what shows that as a 'civilised' nation we can take such critique and move on - its doesnt mean to say that 300 posts represents the majority - we have the choice of 'not listening or reasoning and following our own path' - to a greater degree than most do
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:38,
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Yes, we doand I just wish that people would acknowledge that, instead of saying that our society is fascist and our elected leaders are Nazi murderers.
There are really bad people in the world, who deserve that kind of characterisation far more than our own politicians.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:43,
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There are really bad people in the world, who deserve that kind of characterisation far more than our own politicians.
and they do get it, BUT (and this is a big but)the 'bad' guys as you so call them, do often tend to come from modertaly or greatly impoverished societies themselves
(consider the likes of many african dictators - Mugabe for instance)
If we start taking the mic out of them on a greatly enhanced platform, there is always someone, somewhere in our society who will denounce us as 'the devil incarnate' for taking the piss out of an impoverished nation, claiming 'you dont live there, what do you know' the fact is, we live HERE, hence, we KNOW what we're in, and it makes it far easier to mock what we know, and get away with it. It doesnt mean its right, but at least we ain't getting shot at for speaking our mind and testing the society we live and believe in
I think it all comes down in the end to one simple phrase...
"If they're big enough, and powerful enough, they can take it"
and most of the time, i believe its a simple as that
((consider the likes of many african dictators - Mugabe for instance)
If we start taking the mic out of them on a greatly enhanced platform, there is always someone, somewhere in our society who will denounce us as 'the devil incarnate' for taking the piss out of an impoverished nation, claiming 'you dont live there, what do you know' the fact is, we live HERE, hence, we KNOW what we're in, and it makes it far easier to mock what we know, and get away with it. It doesnt mean its right, but at least we ain't getting shot at for speaking our mind and testing the society we live and believe in
I think it all comes down in the end to one simple phrase...
"If they're big enough, and powerful enough, they can take it"
and most of the time, i believe its a simple as that
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:46,
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Don't be down mate - its what free speech is all about :)Catch you on the 'moro
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:50,
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