Quote - I don't have any psycho babble to describe it. Just this observation. Missouri is looking at passing laws against cyber harrassment after a certain local case where a teen was harrassed so severly online by an adult that she commited suicide. People need to start waking up and realising they can't just be hateful because it's "Their Style" or whatever other excuse they may have.

Cyber harassment is causing real pain for some people. Whether these sensitive individuals should be in online forums is another matter entirely, but people need to know there's a growing awareness of the cyber world and legal eyes are looking.

There's so much utterly wrong-headed thinking wrapped up into a single bundle here, that it's hard to know where to even begin with this one.  Let's try to inject a note of logic to this uber-emotional style of......I won't dignify it by calling it "debate"........this way:

1.  Comparing an open forum debate to an infamous suicide which happened as a result of a case-by-fraud committed as an intentional criminal act against a helpless 13-year-old girl is........how can I put this politely?.......just a bit of an intellectual stretch.  The utterly vacuous reasoning behind such an implied association is....so outrageously bizarre as to be breath-taking in its naïveté.  It's equivalent to comparing a political debate on a talk show to a rape.  Un-be-lievable.

Debate is a great tradition.  And there's no guarantee that you'll leave one unscathed.  If that's a concern: then it's better not to get into the water in the first place.  But comparing the outcome of an open forum debate in such a format as this one to a fraudulent cyber-crime committed against a child?  It's -- asinine.

2.  "Legal eyes are looking" -- :rolleyes:  In such a case as this: it's more like "sensible eyes are rolling".

I hope that this helps someone to be a little less sensitive -- and perhaps a little more sensible.

Unreal.

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