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I'm ok with it. Poking at people that are already off balance and highly upset is retarded. If you want to wrap yourself in bacon and go into the lion's den, that's on you. People today have trouble with nuance. Don't murder should be the easiest. When that's gone, we are really in trouble, because anything more subtile is completely lost in the broader ability to reason. Our law is built on a foundation of "the reasonable man". There's been decades of too much coddling of bad behaviour of the left. Those survey results - the ability to reason is out the window in the broader culture. The non left, particularly libertarians, struggle with how to show tough love and how to draw and enforce appropriate boundaries, just as the left has trouble with recognizing that other people are entitled to boundaries. You want to go to a funeral and say ha ha he's dead, don't look to me for sympathy when someone decks you. I'm old enough to remember when society understood that you can't reason with some people, bullies in particular, and the need for a good punch in the nose. That's nuanced and the understanding of how and when is completely lost today. For the people incapable of nuance - we have a right to free speech. That boundary is worth defending and going to a campus to speak freely should never be wrapping in bacon and going into the lion's den and when it becomes that we all must act to enforce that appropriate boundary. If we want a society that debates freely, as we once had, we have to nurture and foster that.

Sep 14
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