yes, because it's in something the UN puts out, it's obviously legal and enforced in all member nations. The UN is not feckless at all.

who decides proper manners? a century ago it probably wasn't "proper manners" for a woman to you know... speak. or wear pants. but that's off-topic.

i'm a bit more liberal than the average american, but i'm of the firm belief that all speech, all expression no matter how offensive should be protected from and by the law. It scares me that if i speak the wrong words, i might ruin my life, that if i contribute to the wrong political philosophy or campaign, i could ruin my life. I could ruin my life with a single tweet.

And the thing ruining my life is the judgmental, vicious and gleeful masses.

I like to think that i try to be excellent to others... but that in some very small part entails being excellent to those that are not excellent to me.

just use decades, decades are nice and safe. century's less so,

millenium is fine, it's an absurd enough scaling up that it's still humorous. turn of the century is scary because it has been long enough to just barely be applicable as a phrase... which is terrifying.

:) wasn't commenting on your stance, which is reasonable. just commenting that generally that it seems that the same group of people that are saying "fuck them" are the same that say about our prison system, "give them a second chance." we've all said stuff we don't mean, an ill-judged joke, culturally acceptable but locally insensitive comments etc.

it's a strange new world we live in, where all it takes is a single comment to ruin one's life... because social media is bloodthirsty, unfeeling, uncompromising and gleefully malicious.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, and i'm friggin shocked at how quickly the left is eating its own. I've moved to the center by standing still apparently.

yes. obviously they should die for words they speak. you are a wise and just person.

:) i think he's suggesting we turn people who talk a big game, into people who have no choice but to live a big game.

yes lets turn these people into those with no other choice but crime.

... come on now... think about that for a second.

... aren't some of their job prospects basically nil at this point? if that's not permanent damage, i don't know what is.

Also, as i've stated above somewhere, i trust my mob justice, it's the rest of you mooks i don't trust.

and do you really want to depend on the judgement of an aggrieved and protective parent to be fair and considered toward an aggressor?

and i'm dreading the day the troll exposed really is an adolescent boy that's thereafter exposed to the aggregate punishment of a nation. It will happen; apparently schilling held back names, what happens when the next guy doesn't?

will they still feel righteous then? brendan eich was fired for a thousand dollar political contribution... is it really so far fetched?

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please, for the love of all that's holy... don't refer to it as the turn of the century.

if it's not a crime, it should be.

dear lord, i fell down the rabbit hole.... wtf is a micro-aggression? have they honestly criminalized the minor friction of diversity? god, being teasingly offensive is like the spice of life.

i can honestly say, i'm a liberal, but the left has left me. dear lord.

doesn't even need to go that far.

if you've never done or said a single thing in your life that would offend a part of the population the size of "your boss doesn't feel like dealing with this shit." ... then you're honestly a damn saint... and i don't think there are that many saints running around.

:) i personally love it how the same people who would argue for the rehabilitative ideal of the prison system are the same ones that are out for blood in these circumstances.

... just as me giving you money for killing someone is perfectly morally sound. The only guilty party is the person accepting the money to kill someone. It's been so obvious this entire time.

just as child soldiers are the only ones to blame for shooting civilians and not the warlords that trained them to do it... free will obviously absolves the warlords of all guilt... good to know.

and hell, you know what? if i hold a gun to a man's head to commit a mass murder, i'd only be guilty of kidnapping and not of the mass murder. because obviously, the man could have made the choice to die instead... because anything done by proxy obviously absolves the person at the end of all guilt.

yes, straw men, but the point stands. just because the violence is done by proxy, does not absolve the instigator of guilt.

This baseball pitcher is directly responsible for the damage to those two guy's lives. He obviously made the judgement call that ruining the lives of 7 others was not worth it. By his discretion we know he knew the potential consequences of his actions.

  You may think that it is a justified response, and that the consequences to those particular gentlemen were commensurate with their "crime," and i won't argue with your opinion on the matter, but that's an entirely separate issue. The former pitcher is just as guilty for his retaliation as they are for actions retaliated against.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that the internet is a cesspit, and when you wade through the muck you can't reasonably get angry at the filth.

incitement to violence is a crime.

And by that logic if i pay for an assassination all guilt falls on the assassin, none on me. good to know.

If i know my followers are prone to attacks, which you know, the unruly mob kind of is, and are just waiting for a target to act... and i provide them with the details of a target knowing full well that it may, and or is likely to, lead to destruction of property or personal injury... I am guilty of knowingly aiding in violence toward others. morally and legally i am not in safe waters.