Reply #63: "does this hurt freaks?" [View All]

[amazona]

Your post reminds me of the Robert Anton Wilson story of how he was talking to a friend about the Manson family murders. His friend's comment on the case: "Does this hurt freaks?"

I agree with you to a certain extent...people get caught up on whether or not something hurts or helps the cause and sometimes forget what the cause really is.

But I don't think we can stand for censoring people's blogs. I don't see a problem with not linking to a blog if it's too off-message or potentially hurtful to family members of our troops. Nothing wrong with Kerry's site taking off the link to the supposedly offending blog. But I don't think we should go much further than that. People should have the right to express themselves in any legal fashion on their own site. I also think we have the right to have our own thoughts and if sometimes a less-than-noble thought pops into mind, it is not hurting anyone, it is just proof that we are humans and not members of some high-falutin' holy choir.