IRONCHEF wrote:
Not wrote:
IRONCHEF wrote:
Speech. Arms is not under attack (though the arms lobby would disagree). Speech, however, is under attack and a much more worthy fight to keep.
I'm not sure if you can quantify the worth of a basic right as higher than another. They're both extremely valuable, and in both regards one can be more important to certain individuals than others. Clearly your right to free speech is more important to you than your right to bear arms,
but that certainly doesn't mean that people who have a different point of view are wrong for where they hold their values.
If you feel I have somehow said someone is wrong for holding a different point of view of their values, then you're welcome to write your senator and request that I be electrocuted, waterboarded, beaten, humiliated, and then imprisoned for life for expressing my opinion. Oh wait, different congress now...you should write your representative and ask that I be reprimanded for my opinion.
I'm not sure why you'd jump to defense so quickly at that comment. Maybe it's due to the way many other people react to your posts that has you paranoid. Presuming somehow from what I said that I'd want you executed for disagreeing is not only ridiculous, but would contradict the point I made in my own post. Please read it again more carefully, and refer to your own post while considering what I said.
I quote "Speech, however, is under attack and a much more worthy fight to keep." - IRONCHEF
I was simply presenting an argument (Argument in the sense of my input on the subject, not as a confrontation) that nullifying others' beliefs by dismising them as unworthy is a vain, and close-minded approach to a debate over peoples' opinions. I even clearly stated that it was obvious that your right to free speech was more important to you, because I respect your opinion on the matter.
I've read some pretty foolish things about you being a psychopath liberal, and I assure you that I don't apply the prejudices of others to anyone I'm debating with. However, you may choose to sit down sometime and assess what people say about you after you jump at people with wild accusations that you acquire by blatantly misinterpreting what they say, forming your own meanings of other peoples' words, and fitting them to your cause, and omitting the parts that obviously contradict you. Then again, that sometimes appears to be the liberal way, so perhaps what "they" say is true?
It's just startling to me to see people accuse so many others of being close-minded while they sit ignorantly upon their pedastals, totally unwilling to accept or acknowledge the diversity inherent in humanity. *See pro-life vs. pro-choice fanatics.
