-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 13:49, Carl Spitzer wrote: >> Its also part of the political correctness movement which is >> unamerican and unconstitutional. There is no right to not be offended. > You might be interested in the book, "No More Bullies," by Frank > Peretti. > > Your statement is patently false... some of us believe that we are > endowed by > our creator with certain unalienable rights... that among these are life, > liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whether you like it or not there must > be limits for decencies that respect the sensibilities of masses of people > unitied for the purpose of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yes--- > we do have personal rights to a decent protection against attack... sexual, > verbal, physical, &etc. All human beings have this right--- whether their > national constitution spells it out or not. Dehumanizing attacks intended to > demean, inflame, (pick your word), are a violation of basic human rights... > against basic human sensibilities. Its not about PC, or liberalism... I > generally recoil at liberalism (registered Republican). However, I do believe > that freedom of speech carries with it responsibility of speech. > > As for boys needing to grow up to be insensitive... that kind of > thinking led > to the Columbine shooting... it also led to the VT shooting... and it will > continue to lead to shootings... until folks get it through their head that > insensitivity (and probably bullying) is what makes the difference for a > Seung Hui Cho. > > Please take a look at Peretti's book--- its an eye opener. > > >
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