I think the point is that people were not respecting other peoples opinions. Regardless of what the information was or which facts were produced to back it up - individuals were constantly hijacking political debate to mudlsing and be insulting if they disagreed with something rather than entering into serious political debate. People were even criticising other people's spelling for crying out loud - that was how stupid and inane the 'political debate' was getting. I for one am bored with it as I think I have made quite clear in repeated threads.
I will always be the first person to defend freedom of speech but as the quote says, with freedom of speach comes great responsibility and sadly, there was not a lot of responsibility being shown here at Namepros.
Nazism is always trotted out when things like this are mentioned - sort of a soundbite now in issues like this but lets use another famous soundbite -
'Does Freedom of Speech allow you to shout 'FIRE' in a crowded cinema'
- no, because that is irresponsible and brings us full circle to the whole responsibility issue.
