Not to derail the thread, but another example: A little girl suffering from the disease progeria makes videos on Youtube. The poor little thing looks horribly disfigured, but she has an innocent loving heart. There are goofballs posting horrible comments on her videos, and someone even put up a website that makes fun of her and talks about how she should be killed in heinous ways. I think that should be at least a civil offense if not criminal. We need to go back to public floggings!
As children, we're taught to respect others, and that it's wrong to say certain things. But as adults we have courts that allow the most sickening things under free speech.
Damn, you're right. All these years, we've been so obsessed with this whole pesky 1st amendment that we lost sight of what's acceptable and what's not. If only we had local speech approval boards to control the flow of information!
