If people want censorship shouldn't they be starting by censuring themselves ? There won't be any need for official censorship then !

Dear Banjo and Paul,

I agree that Lidia Thorpe should have been an
opportunity to explain her position. Hopefully,
she would have seen that it may not have been
what she said - but the way she said it. She was
very aggressive and disrespectful.

Thank you both for giving me much more to think about.

Ah, so words are equal to an assassin's bullets? True for the DGR where the Stasi was always vigilant in the hunt for spreaders of misinformation and disinformation, just as Albo aspires to be with his mad bill. At least Senator Thorpe has come out in favour of free speech, but how ironic that the forum discusses the right of pollies to express themselves freely while the Senate ponders a bill that could shut us up here.

Hi Foxy,
"We have the right to speak but just because we have this
right does not mean we have the right to use that power
to hurt others. People should recognise this right's
limitations."

We do have a right to protest, we do have a right to dissent, and we do have the right to vote, which means often we all end up with leadership we don't want.

That said, where does genuine dissent end, and where do hurt [feelings] begin?
There is no specific law that protects one from being offended

Where does my right to say 'screw these people' on merit end because someone else takes offense to it and needs a box of tissues thrown at their feet?

Hi AC,

I think the question needing to be asked is - "what
motives you?" If the answer is - "malice", surely
that's not appropriate - right?

Common sense.

Hi Fester
Words can be a sword or a shield, to attack or to defend.

Last night I had an issue going thru McDonalds.
I wonder now whether I handled the situation very well.

[Idiot] girl passes me a small Fanta, and she hadn't put the lid on properly, 1/4 cup of Fanta ends up in my lap and all over my seat at 9:30pm.
Yes I was a little incensed, even more so when the girl took no responsibility and blamed me for it, then I was a bit mad.

So I jack up and am told, 'If you're going to be rude we won't serve you' - after they had already taken my money.

The manager got a dressing down after that, maybe I was a little harsh and thrown off by the whole thing, I dunno.

If you are getting paid to do a job, and the only thing you have to do is put lids on drinks and pass them to customers and you can't do that right, then you more or less dump a drink in someones lap, refuse to apologise and are then upset that the person got up you, well I don't know what things are coming to.

What should I have done?
How would one be expected to react?