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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6181489" data-attributes="member: 177">Oh, sure there are.  There's a ton of different behaviors you dang well know are unacceptable, so you don't do them.Go take a look at the Rules of EN World.  Note how they aren't all that specific.  Open to interpretation.  The rules in the rest of the world are similar.  You just disagree with some on what the interpretations are.  The only difference between here and there is that Morrus has chosen some individuals to be that arbiters of interpretation.  The rest of the world has those for only a set of behaviors (crimes).  The rest are not so clearly policed.  And now, unfortunately, I have to be more official...Ah, yeah!  Big man, calling people names!  That really makes your point *soooooo* much more valid.  That you say that right after I remind you that my job includes stopping insults... well, it doesn't make you look too bright.  Might make folks question how valid the rest of the reasoning is.And we (meaning EN World Moderators) don't tolerate name-calling.  It is, in this context, a form of bullying - those who stand against you are now branded, "sissy" and "sensitive wimp", safely dismissed.  However, you can't intimidate me with that crap.  Cut it out.  Raise your rhetorical game.Or, you know, don't.  At the moment, you're doing less to prove that you're right, and more to demonstrate that you can be a jerk.Interestingly, given your setup, you can't complain about how rude I just was, can you?  That would make you a sissy, wouldn't it?I do apologize to the collected folks for that little display.  It was to prove a point - we have social rules, for good reason.  It isn't all that hard to see when someone has violated them, and no, it isn't wrong to speak out when you do see it.  It doesn't make you a sissy.  It makes you someone who wants people to treat each other with a modicum of respect and thoughtfulness.  And standing up for that is not weakness.With the right of free speech (which, of course, is actually the right not to have the government stomp on you for what you say) comes a responsibility to use that right wisely.  As with most rights, you fail in the associated responsibility, you risk losing the right.</blockquote>

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