Tyranny With Manners – small dead animals

I think she’s missing the entire point of the battle.
Whether we are debating ethically turns for the most part on our intentions. Are we trying to get our point across in a way that is as productive and simultaneously harmless as possible? This is the ethical approach. Or are we trying to win by any means possible, including character assassination and the bullying of opponents into submission?
Those, such as Levant, who argue that human rights commissions should not have authority to regulate speech are, in my view, entirely right. But how some people advance that view is quite wrong.

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“Those who attack their opponents personally, instead of arguing against their policy positions, are using freedom of speech in an unethical way. ”
Yeah like having someone you disagree with forever labelled a Grade A federally inspected “official racist”.
Fence sitting defeatist doesn’t understand the stakes she straddles.
Damit Janet; I’ve got your “unethical way” right here.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
– Thomas Fuller
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
– T. S. Eliot
Why, then the world’s mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
– William Shakespeare
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
– Stanislaw Lee
Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
– Marcus Aurelius
The citizen’s job is to be rude – to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
-John Ralston Saul
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
-Salman Rushdie
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
-Thomas Sowell
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
-Bell Hooks
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
-Frederick Douglass
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
-Neal Boortz
Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful.
-Charles Bradlaugh

It’s a safe assumption that you’re going to be cut in a knife fight and even if by chance you don’t get cut, it’s a fair chance that you’re going to get bloody.
Life’s like that. Condom-ized living only exists in La La Land.

Yep hypocrisy at it’s finest, she scolds Ezra for personal attacks and then she attacks him personally. Loopy logic at it’s finest. As for personal attacks she’s keeping a list of those who say things she doesn’t like, I’d call that as personal as it can get.