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The power of hatred : Comments
By David Knoll, published 7/4/2009Should freedom of expression include the licence to offend when this is a free pass to vilification, intimidation and bullying.
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We call that authoritarianism and usually, the only ones who are comfortable with that are the ones who think they're not subject to authority. They're nearly always mistaken about that.
pynchme:"automatically discount claims of abuse"
Where is your evidence there was anything "automatic" in the decisions made? I'm sure the DP thought long and hard about it but if, as I suspect, these girls had a history of discipline problems and knowing the propensity for gossip and lying among schoolgirls, he then discounted their testimony accordingly. As I have said repeatedly, we call this a "judgement" and it is one of the marks of adulthood that we make judgements. Sometimes we get it wrong, which can be upsetting or even catastrophic, but if we are given no opportunity to do so, most people are much less happy. There are some, like yourself of course, who want all their thinking done by someone else, but they're a small subset.