wibornz
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- Ted
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- Retired from Corrections....I have stories.
You must of got your degree from the University of Phoenix. You can't read or at least comprehend what I wrote. You act like I am running around punching people in the face. Maybe a good question to ask is how many people I have punched in the face for their free speech? Zero..... would be the answer. You see in real life, people don't act like that around me. You act like I have never been verbally assaulted while working in a correctional facility? You act like I think every persons opinion is valued by me. Yet if you knew me you would realize that I basically don't get any self value from other people. I make honest assessments of people and their actions. In my world what someone says means very little to me. I believe in action over someone running their mouth.No, you don't. You can't say you believe in the ideal and then champion the things you have.
Is being an asshole worthy of violating established law in a flawed attempt to make another 'responsible' for their speech? You retired from corrections, you should know the answer to that.
So if you deem someone an asshole who says something you find extremely offensive, you're advocating physically assaulting them.
Seems to me, the people you used to oversee would agree. Society and a court of law do not however.
And words, by their nature, are not actions.
You're just proving my point about not having learned that words only have the power over you that you allow them to. Under the ideal of free speech, you have no control over what others may say...you can only control how you react to those things; by shrugging it off or countering. Internalizing the commentary shouldn't be the default, but it is in our society b/c we don't teach our children their self worth. I find less intelligent folks will resort to violence rather than reason.
What you're also apparently unknowingly advocating is not only censorship (which is anathema to the ideal of free speech in the first place) b/c "words can be harmful" but the same sort of "safe space" mentality leftists espouse....just at the other end of the spectrum where violence is the correct response....that so many Americans have started to adopt.
Are words really that big of threat to our ego? Clearly they are. And that's sad.
And a weak psyche will always bear scars due to inappropriate evaluations of self worth and a lack of confidence in one's ethos. We must change ourselves if we seek to change the world. Or as Ghandi put it, "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him."
People that talk shit on the internet are what we call a cell gangster in prison. When out on the rock, you are all cool, then when you get in your cell, and you are safe, you talk shit. Don't think that that corrections staff don't do that either. We called the staff hallway gangsters, as soon as the prisoner is locked up behind the steel door they talk shit to the prisoner knowing that they can't be punched in the face.
Does society set laws that determine when someone has crossed the line. Yes. an that is why some people deserve to get punched in the face and don't. As I used to tell mouthy prisoners. The only reason you are talking that mad crap is because you know that I will not punch you in the face. If I worked at McDonalds though, I would climb or the counter and take you to task. They are no different that shit talking trolls on the internet. Every person before they talk trash in real life makes an assessment. I am talking face to face life, makes an assessment before they talk shit, if they will get punched in the face for it. If they believe they they will get punched in the face, they shut up. If they think that they will not get punched in the face they continue. The person on the other side also make the same assessment. If they punch them in the face, can they win the physical confrontation, is it worth the effort or risk.
Fights and wars have started many times over mere words. Now this is just a feeling on my end. I would have to say that many people that have interacted with you have though to themselves man you need to be punched in the mouth, but you are just not worth it. Maybe I am wrong. I would certainly hope that I am wrong.
And a weak psyche....... yeah, nobody see a phycologist/therapist for getting punched in the mouth. They see them because they have been mentality beat down.
So in closing, just know that punching someone in the face was a metaphorical statement. If I was to strike someone (based on the guiding principles of the Use of Force continuum) and I have, I usually use a forearm strike to the brachial plexus origin.
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