OR I DEAL WITH IT ON MY TERMS. Sometimes that means posting it and answering, sometimes it means posting it and ridiculing it, sometimes it means having fun, sometimes it means posting parts of what was sent without dealing with the whole thing because I don't have to if I don't want to and putting it to any use I choose to.
I'm not under any moral obligation to post crap that trolls want to post but if they volunteer material, I'm not under any moral obligation to put it to the use they want me to.
Just to make my approach clear.
Update: Simps gives me a chance to show you what I mean in something I may or may not post as a complete comment:
Stop pretending like you're some kind of free speech hero -- everybody knows you're not.
If he were smart, which he likes to pretend he is, he'd realize if there's something I don't pretend to be it is "some kind of free speech hero" because one of the things I won't let him do here is lie about other People, something he does all the time at Duncan's. It's a point I remember being something of a novelty when I first pointed it out to someone who complained that Duncan wasn't permissive enough, some troll whining about having a comment taken down back when Duncan was still making some kind of effort. "Free speech" as in the typical whining about "the First Amendment" doesn't apply to private persons who publish a blog or a magazine or newspaper or other publication, there is no "First Amendment" obligation or even "free speech" one anymore than I'm obligated to let you say whatever you will in my home. And as Simps knows, I'm in favor of all kinds of "free speech" restrictions, against lying in the media, lying by private individuals. I'm really big on the right of People to protect themselves by suing the likes of Trump or FOX Lies or anyone else who can destroy People and their lives by lying. I'm in favor of the banning of a large range of pornographic material and violent material from the media. I'd go a lot farther than the idiotic Supreme Court would in that banning even simulated BD and SM and pedo-porn - I haven't had the stomach to go look at what "AI" has done to the production of that. I fully believe that susceptible moral degenerates act on what they find sexually stimulating when they are encouraged by such shit. And even if that's rare, there's no reason to facilitate those rare occasions. It's not like it has any important role to play that would make allowing it an important cause for the left - the left has been led down too many moral sewers by what I long ago labled as the "free speech industry" those huge liar-lawyers who get money from the porn industry and the idiot elite level lawyer-liars in the judiciary and on that most "First Amendment" addled bunch of liars on the Supreme Court. Both the original "free speech heroes" on the Warren Court who thought they were being all free speechy when they did it and the Republican-fascists on later courts who used their precedents to make money equal "speech" to free up millionaire and billionaire money to corrupt our politics (scuttling the emergency legislation to clean up our politics in the wake of the revelations of the Nixon crime spree) and going on to further open up our politics in crimes against democracy such as "Citizens United."
There is no such a thing as a "right" to lie, there is a right to tell the truth which has an obligation attached to tell the truth responsibly. I had occasion the other day while re-reading Exodus to note for the first time that the exception to that, perhaps the first one in human literature, was the two mid-wives who were told to commit infanticide by Pharaoh lying to him about why they didn't follow his order and so destroying the Children of Israel in one generation (I wonder if that was the origin of the matrilineal determination of who was a member of the Children of Israel). If you're forced to lie to prevent a greater moral wrong, you have an obligation to do that but its moral consequences fall on the ones that make you do that. It has nothing to do with the political lies that have swamped our democracy and given us Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and II, Trump and the Republican-fascist Congress and Court. "Free speech" as understood in 20th and 21st century America is a moral atrocity so it can't be right.
Just thought I'd use the chance Simps gave me to repeat that. I may choose to post his slightly longer though even stupider post after he's stewed in it a while.
Oh puhleeze. You're a pathetic coward and bully who thinks it's cool to "argue" with people -- i.e. make fun of people -- by not quoting what they actually said.
ReplyDeleteStop pretending like you're some kind of free speech hero -- everybody knows you're not. 😎