[njbchbum]

blueash -

you posted:

'All views are not due equal hearing and equal respect. The public forum is not equally open to those that claim the earth is round vs the earth is flat.'
- i ask you, who made those decisions?

'It is the duty of citizens to shout down those who continue to deny that the earth is round and tell them their "belief" is wrong and not worthy of equal time and in fact worthy of derision.'
- please clarify who it is that made shouting down anyone's opinion a duty of anyone else, telling anyone they are wrong and especially are not worthy of anything but derision?

'If I were to state that all disabled children should be killed I would hope you wouldn't comment that all views need to be respected until they are acted upon. I would hope you would scream about what an inherently evil thought that is and that a person who holds that view ought to keep it silent or be severely criticized by everyone in the room if such an evil thought is even spoken.'
- seems to me that is the verbal equivalent of biblical stoning!