04-14-2020, 12:16 AM
(04-13-2020, 01:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-13-2020, 03:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may be excessively literal in my understanding of many things, but telling someone to commit suicide goes far beyond the line of decency. I was not the only person offended.
I can do that too. I can hammer you for anything that's remotely offensive to anyone. I can even make stuff up and accuse you of anything. I don't want to be a liberal but I can pretend to be just like one anytime. It's not like I have more important things to do right now or the foreseeable future.
Making derogatory stuff up about someone and publishing it is either slander or libel. It's good for a profit-eating lawsuit, and bad for one's credibility.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.