DaDeuceIsLoose wrote:Teal'C wrote:I personally thought it was funny, wats the big deal we can have people say on here, that all gays should be shot, and we can have the word nigger on our forums, but we can not, have Jesus loves massing rofl, wat if i make a sig, saying
"Jesus, the worlds biggest joke" would that really be all that bad, as this is a free forum i See no reason as to why it can not stay?
Meh, just think you should respect other's beliefs. Just because you don't belief in Jesus or who something else thinks He is doesn't mean you should purposely antagonize them. TBH you would lose my friendship if you did that. Granted many people who do things like flame gays and call people niggers are complete idiots, that doesn't make it ok to do.
I don't agree with homosexuality, but that doesn't mean I attack them.
Just because you don't agree with Jesus, doesn't mean you should purposely draw a response from His "followers".
Its like me and you discuseed last night, sometimes there are just topics that need to be avoided, to prevent flaming. Make the Mod's job easier. (not that THATS hard, lol j/k)
respecting people's beliefs is important, i'll grant you that, but so is free speech. and in the liberal society we live in, a person's freedom of speech usually trumps anything short of causing immediate bodily harm to another person (or inciting to such a thing).
that's why KKK members are allowed to demonstrate. because if we take the freedom of speech from one group, we will soon take it from all others.
now, this forum is a different thing all toghether. it is not a liberal society, it is a sort of a (presumebly benevolent) dictatorship.
however: the very essence of a forum is free speech. and once you start making too many restrictions and setting too many precedents, you will soon end up with no forums.
take this example: say we won't allow this sig. next thing, is the "jesus can read acronym" sig, then MFC won't be allowed to keep his username, and then sigs containig pigs would be excluded, to cater to Jews/muslims, than cows, to cater to budhists, and armaments, to cater to pacifist, and hearts, to cater to fascists, and where is the line drawn?
the current line on this forums is drawn at a direct insult to a specific person. do you really want it to move?
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teal'c wrote:Jesus maybe Hitch should be ombudsman he seems to be the only one with brains around here
GhostyGoo wrote:Capitalism is responsible for the death of humanity through a complete and utter destruction of ethical conduct, you DO know this, right?
Thanks to capitalism, when your doctor tells you you require a kidney transplant to survive, you no longer can be certain if you actually need a kidney transplant or your doctor simply needs a new speedboat. Nice.
-Goo