(March 15, 2014 at 2:59 pm)discipulus Wrote: Mockery is evil however you justify it.
Well you believe in an absolute morality don't you? So I won't even go there.
Quote:Constructive criticism is often times helpful. But you can criticize someone in a disrespectful manner which is never justifiable.
I call bullshit. Being disrespectful can be funny. It can make a point. It can highlight idiocy. It can deter people from being idiots themselves.
Quote:You seem to be thinking that I am saying we should always respect a person's views. I have never said that we have to always respect a person's views. What I have said is the we are to respect THE PERSON. If in the course of criticizing someone's views you stoop so low as to disrespect the PERSON, you have erred and are not acting in love.
If you qualify calling someone some bad names (as you obviously do considering how much you whine about curse words) as disrespect, then I disagree with you once more.
Believing your Yoda style slippery slope argument would mean everyone who ever called someone else a bad word is an evil, violent person with hatred in their hearts. Get real.
