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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5251999" data-attributes="member: 177">When I make any suggestion that I want them deleted, perhaps that'll be relevant.  Until then, it's hyperbolizing my position by implication.Yeah, right.  Well, when someone comes into your house, drinks too much, and vomits on your carpet and your significant other, remember that it was his decision as to what was appropriate, and you only get to decide the consequences. Me, I'll continue thinking that appropriateness is a matter of social conventions, not one person's lone opinion.  Thinking about it, though, whatever your personal beliefs on the matter are, it seems to me you are demonstrably incorrect as a practical matter.  Our society has any number of clear definitions of appropriateness  called "laws".  If selfsame drunkard drives away from your house and runs over your begonias and crashes through your fence, you have a right to sue, because those things are not appropriate actions.  Heaven forfend he runs over a person - by your rules, he gets to think that was appropriate, too!(Yes, that's reductio ad absurdum - making a comment on a message board is not equivalent to running someone over with a car.  But somewhere, it seems to me your logic fails.  I think it fails at the very start.  YMMV.)  Again, appropriateness is a matter of social convention.  I read CNN.com.  I'm a member of the audience, so I get to have an opinion on the matter.</blockquote>

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