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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (4770)3/25/2002 6:03:13 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
A person is under no "legal" obligation to consider other people's "religious prejudices" or - in less loaded language- the decisions other people have made about religion. But if you've been in society at all you KNOW you are under social obligations. You don't go to a church and start talking very loudly about how stupid all the parishoners are. You don't go to synagogue and start talking about how great the Nazis are, or singing the Aryan Nations anthem (whatever it is)- sure, these verge on breach of the peace, but even if they didn't, it would be just plain weird and anti-social to do these things. It is not necessary to be anti-social in order to talk with people who do not agree with you. Obviously some people do like to do this- but it is not necessary. It is not illegal to be rude, and call names, but it is not mandatory for intelligent discussion- in fact, it kind of gets in the way of intelligent discussion.

I used to think being the mirror for your opponent in a discussion worked on the net. But it only works if you want to have pissed off people who aren't listening to each other. I'm not sure I see the point of that any more. And I'm also not sure why that makes me a hypocrite or makes it ok to attack me. Be assured, however, that I will be trying not to attack anyone else, or call them names- no matter what bad behavior I encounter. Although I am trying to limit the bad behavior I may chance to encounter- and I really don't see why that is so very wrong either. I'm not sure I'll ever understand that..
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