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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
actually it would make me look like an idiot except i kept repeating to you that that's what i was on about and you kept coming back at me with irrelevant **** about the black panthers and baseless accusations that i was supporting violence. so it actually makes you look like you can't read.
and you're a guy? i assumed you were a woman.
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John. Stop. You've already admitted that your sole purpose for being here is to defend the freedom of expression. I've just pointed out to you that defending freedom of expression
was my entire purpose for entering this thread in the first place! At literally any time in our argument, you could have pulled up one of my earlier posts and said "Look! You said right here that you love freedom of speech! If we're fighting for the same thing, then why are we fighting each other?", and yet you didn't. I, on the other hand, was the one to notice that our stances were the same, and I pulled up quotes to prove it.
Do you know what this means? Either of us could easily have understood that we were on the same side at any time, because the proof was right there. But I was the one who noticed it, not you. And that can only be because I was the one who actually bothered to read the posts in this thread. You can't claim that you actually read my posts, because if you had, you would have seen our similarities in a heartbeat. This right here:
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
I'll be brief; I don't support violence. A person can walk down a street wearing whatever shirt they want, they don't deserve to be killed. And if someone says something that offends another person, they don't deserve to be killed. Fighting against terrorists and bullies is something that will never end, but guess what? Such is the way of life. Everything simultaneously repeats and fades away. But just because our lives are brief doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make the most out of the time we have. And just because violence is an inevitability doesn't mean that we shouldn't do what we can to prevent needless deaths. I will always support the freedom of expression, even if people choose to use that freedom to be complete jerks towards each other. Because the best society, in my mind, isn't the one where everyone is nice to each other; it's the one where people get to decide whether they want to be nice or mean, without having to worry about someone killing them for their thoughts.
But hey, it's the endless debate, right? Let's simply agree to disagree. But try to remember that the freedom of expression is one that you're enjoying right now, as you argue with me. Without it, we wouldn't even have the ability to be discussing this topic right now. Losing that freedom, even in small pieces over a long period of time, is a horrible tragedy.
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Is evidence that you never actually read anything I wrote in this thread. Now I'll say it one last time; we're on the same side. Every punch you swing at me is just a punch that you're taking at yourself.