Introduction

[basil]

all this guy did was voice his opinion and he gets jumped on him like he took a sh1t in someones humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''


think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

Really. Ok, logan put it better than I would above and you should click the link he found as well.

The only thing I'd like to add is regarding that shitty quote you used. We've had some low-lifes come on here, get their feelings hurt, and in the ensuing meltdown make some pretty heinous statements - racisism, threats of physical and sexual violence to members here and/or their family members. Will you defend that to the hilt soli? Try it and you'll be thrown out so fast you'll be digging yourself out of your defendent's ass.

rockypatelsassholebrother's BS may've sounded relatively mild, but if on a severity scale (call it a troll scale) of 1-100 a racist remark might register in the 80's, and rockyetc.'s polite little contribution in the 20's, the two of them both still have the scale in common. A delicate troll is still a troll - someone who with blustering, threats, haranguing, whining, or whatever, believes he will come onto a forum and arrogantly try to change that forum and the thinking within. Not because he's right. Not because he cares about any principle. Not in the name of the downtrodden under the heels of the mean ol' local vigilante. But simply because he cannot bear the thought of a place in which he has zero control. So, he foolishly goes about the business of creating for himself a delusion of power over others' reality. This person's days are numbered. He has no business here and the sooner he's gone, the better.

So, it'd be pretty cool if you would give it some more thought before you decide to comment any further one way or the other on this issue. No one's trying to indoctrinate here - just suggesting you sit still, enjoy some cigars, etc.