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Old May 12th, 2007, 03:02 PM
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Default Re: OT: Politics

I like that this kind of thread is showing up. Yes, the thought of politics mixing with our fantasy escape can be a bit depressing, but it's also a good sign that we're evolving as a community, not just in relation to the game, but in relation to ourselves.

Yes it does belong here, and I hope it stays. I'll contribute what I can to keep it a civil conversation with aspirations of enlightenment, but truly, this is an example of free speech and free will. Please try to understand that such things are in real danger in the times we live in (as they always have been).

Free speech isn't a right, it's a privelage, it's one of the benefits of 500 years of bloodshed and sacrifice, and the will and strength found in the weakest, poorest, most prosecuted of people to both stand against the entire world, and change the world. Good people, people you would have liked, died for it, in droves. It's really, *really* important, and it should be protected and held sacred as a big part of what makes life worth living.

The public domain of the world will never be exactly the way you or I want it to be, and that's beautiful. If you don't like it, have the willpower to either change the channel or change your mind. Freedom comes with those kinds of choices and the responsibility to make them.

The trade-off is that, here in the U.S. you have as good a chance as anywhere in the world of living your private life exactly the way you want to.
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