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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6280351" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>If you lose the right to do something, you lose the choice as to whether or not you should. <strong>Yes, you should exercise respect, caution, responsibility, care, and decency in the exercise of your rights.</strong> None of which goes against anything I've said.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Frack this is frustrating. I don't know how much simpler I can make this. </p><p><strong>Point one </strong>- You can look at your own work and decide whether it's appropriate or not. Absolutely, everyone should do that. Everyone does do that, every day.</p><p><strong>Point two</strong> - You don't get to decide when someone else is offended. You just don't. You don't get to choose what I find funny, or what I find sad, or what I find offensive.</p><p><strong>Point three</strong> - If your primary concern is whether or not someone else is going to be offended by your work, and you make your decisions based solely on that, then you are self-censoring, and you're never going to write anything provocative again. Sad but true. If you do it anyways, then you are placing your opinion about your work above someone else's sensibilities. Honestly, we all do this every day. People just don't like to acknowledge it.</p><p><strong>Point four </strong>- once you've decided to censor yourself, it's a small step to censoring others. The King and I is offensive. It IS banned in Thailand. If you defend it, you're opening yourself up to accusations of supporting cultural appropriation, insensitivity, and bigotry. If you don't defend it, you're opening yourself up to accusations of censorship and abrogation of free speech. Books are still banned in places around the US today. This isn't some antique concern. Pointing at a book and saying "is this a problem?" opens the door to an answer of "yes", and the question becomes "what do you do about it?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6280351, member: 70"] If you lose the right to do something, you lose the choice as to whether or not you should. [B]Yes, you should exercise respect, caution, responsibility, care, and decency in the exercise of your rights.[/B] None of which goes against anything I've said. Edit: Frack this is frustrating. I don't know how much simpler I can make this. [B]Point one [/B]- You can look at your own work and decide whether it's appropriate or not. Absolutely, everyone should do that. Everyone does do that, every day. [B]Point two[/B] - You don't get to decide when someone else is offended. You just don't. You don't get to choose what I find funny, or what I find sad, or what I find offensive. [B]Point three[/B] - If your primary concern is whether or not someone else is going to be offended by your work, and you make your decisions based solely on that, then you are self-censoring, and you're never going to write anything provocative again. Sad but true. If you do it anyways, then you are placing your opinion about your work above someone else's sensibilities. Honestly, we all do this every day. People just don't like to acknowledge it. [B]Point four [/B]- once you've decided to censor yourself, it's a small step to censoring others. The King and I is offensive. It IS banned in Thailand. If you defend it, you're opening yourself up to accusations of supporting cultural appropriation, insensitivity, and bigotry. If you don't defend it, you're opening yourself up to accusations of censorship and abrogation of free speech. Books are still banned in places around the US today. This isn't some antique concern. Pointing at a book and saying "is this a problem?" opens the door to an answer of "yes", and the question becomes "what do you do about it?" [/QUOTE]
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