Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(10-14-2018, 05:17 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: For the record, asking another poster to commit suicide is just the sort of thing I quietly report, and I would not be surprised or disapproving if the moderator took action.  The difference here is I just do not advertise to the other posters when I report or the contents of what I report.

More importantly, it illustrates an aspect of tribal thinking.  If the other guy has a different opinion politically, then he is of another tribe, and common courtesy is therefore out the window.  It seems a common red perspective that the Right of Free Speech can become a right to insult and abuse.  It runs into the blue idea of common human decency, that others should be addressed with courtesy, an ideal that the reds seemingly reject with prejudice, often literally, insisting on abusing others.

Fighting tribal thinking is one small aspect of "all men are created equal'.  You can post on a moderated forum, and the idea becomes real or not according to the moderator.

I didn't tell the person to commit suicide. I didn't ask the person to commit suicide. I tossed it on the table as an option as a way to call an obvious bluff of a blue playing the victim and stifle them a bit.