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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Please note that his statements are blanket "conservative at large" as stated by you, there is no direct community member being insulted.
I suggest that if you do not like the content of his posts, please use the IGNORE feature of the board.
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To the contrary, a large percentage of the members are being insulted: namely, all "conservatives". The charter says that:
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Originally Posted by Charter
Respect is our next value. While your neighbor on TFP may hold different views and opinions than you, it's possible in every way to hold a discussion with him or her without degrading them for their personal way of thinking.
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Only Halx can tell us exactly what it means, but I certainly think that my personal way of thinking is being degraded.
Very disappointing.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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