Quote:First of all, I would like to apologize for my attitude. This is an Atheist forum and I have no right to come here and attack Cinjin or your opinions. I have a long story but here is the highlight reel:
No you do not have that right, but I also don't have any rights here either. But here is where I hope you are not wrongfully confuse issues. This is a privately owned board and only the mods and the owner get to determine the rules. My experience, and I don't speak for all atheists or all atheist websites, but what goes on on any of them is a comfort level issue.
You do have and should have a right protected by the government to blaspheme or ridicule or offend others, even me.
Humans SHOULD always have the right to express their opinion, but only in the sense that the government cannot arrest them for mere dissent. None of us are entitled to the venues that others own, if we want a venue, we go where we are accepted, or we create our own venue. It is only oppression when there are no options and when their is a monopoly.
I myself have been here a few short weeks. I have pissed off quite a few people. But what I have no right to do is to demand that the rules coddle me when I do not own the website.
Look at it as being in someone else's house. If they don't want you to smoke, then don't smoke. But if you smoke your rights are not being oppressed because you can smoke in your own car, or your own house, and the government cannot have you arrested for the mere act of dissent or criticism or offending them.
