(14-09-2025, 02:26 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: Many yuears ago I came across a very old saying:"And it harm none, do what ye will" which sems to cover just about everything.
If we could just manage it...
So you are a Libertarian after all. Yet you hate anything the ACT party want to do to move us in that direction.
(Yesterday, 02:46 PM)Agent_24 Wrote:(Yesterday, 02:41 PM)SueDonim Wrote: If you want left-wing free speech, then you need to give the right an equal level of respect.
And "His rhetoric served to put a huge target on his back and yesterday somebody took aim at it". Really? His rhetoric was simply to question some of the extremism we are seeing.
There's free speech, and then there's hate speech.
He was (part of) the extremism.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, especially if all you do is spew hate.
But that's the whole point. He wasn't spewing hate. He was questioning, and trying to get others to think and question. His extremism was his fundamental religion, which isn't extreme in the US. People are entitled to their beliefs no matter how idiotic they are. Kirk was not spewing hate. He was trying to get others to see that that was what they were doing.