Hilarious. NOT.

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I love it when people all for "free speech" are the first to try and intimidate you into shutting up.

(Sarcasm detector in OVERLOAD!)

the lions' share of us all are hypocrites over something or another. just dig deep enough under somebody's skin and you will find hypocrisy lying in wait.

I hate when people say "it's a free country" in retort to an annoying behavior.

this reminds me of my childhood- when my late father would get soused, he would slap us around and say, "whoops! my hand slipped!"

Some people take freedom of speech too literal because they think it gives them the right to bully and harass you and be rude and nasty.

I hate it, when people take freedom of speech, as an excuse to swear their heads off, at the person that they're angry at.

Or what about if you suggest something shouldn't be said, and others immediately try to make you out as the evil thought police???

As if all restraint = Big Brother Censorship???

OK...so I finally managed to get up the nerve to tell the individual in question that it's one thing to disagree with me--another thing to ascribe a nasty motive that is not there, and that in the future if I'm saying something that's not coming off right, to address the issue with the WORDS without taking a gratuitous slap at me by ascribing to me a mean motive. (To say something like, "I think you're coming off more abrasively than you intended to," instead of saying, "You're saying/doing a horrible thing because you must want to do [insert hurtful thing] to this person.")

Still, I have lost a LOT of trust for that person. I had thought they were a friend, but if they were capable of seeing a thing like that in me and saying it in public, then I don't see much in the way of grounds for trust.

That trust is going to have to be earned back over a LONG time. I gave it back quickly after the first misunderstanding of that nature, but now that it's happened again, I am not going to trust so quickly this time around. It's going to take a long time to prove to me that they are capable of following through on what they said they would, before I will trust again.

How about people saying that you can talk to them, about anything, and than you talk about something that they don't like, and they try to shut you up?

Yeah, they shouldn't have said "ANYTHING." I don't know how people don't hear the absoluteness of their own words.

(Reminds me of a story from when I was little...I got in trouble for something at home--I forget what--and my mom told me to sit on the stairs until I "thought I could behave." Well, even at my age, I knew how poor my impulse control was, and I knew very well that even if I tried, I couldn't promise sterling behavior. So I kept not getting up. My mom, over 20 years later, still thinks this was hilarious. I still think it was a tremendously stupid thing to say and she should have expected that result. How many of you guys would've done the same thing with an instruction like THAT???)

I would have done the same thing with an instruction like that.


I find it annoying when people ask for an honest opinion and get angry when I give it and it is something they don't want to hear.