03-31-2026, 03:45 AM
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please don't confuse human decency with a call for censorship..
Ah, but by whose interpretation of decency, and for that matter censorship?
And do keep in mind by the wisdom invested in them the high court has already emphatically declared that some lies are indeed constitutionally protected, not just when they are said without “actual malice,” but even if the speaker knows the statements are false. So, you gotta grok, one cultures use of a term to describe a condition may be wholly normal, while another's may consider that same term derogatory.. all without dipping below even a nincompoop's definition of a lie. And, as such, clutching pearls and crying foul just don't pass the smell test in a society where speech is protected far more than one's feigned 'sensibilities.'
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please don't confuse human decency with a call for censorship..
Ah, but by whose interpretation of decency, and for that matter censorship?
And do keep in mind by the wisdom invested in them the high court has already emphatically declared that some lies are indeed constitutionally protected, not just when they are said without “actual malice,” but even if the speaker knows the statements are false. So, you gotta grok, one cultures use of a term to describe a condition may be wholly normal, while another's may consider that same term derogatory.. all without dipping below even a nincompoop's definition of a lie. And, as such, clutching pearls and crying foul just don't pass the smell test in a society where speech is protected far more than one's feigned 'sensibilities.'
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