Quote from: mikeywith on Today at 01:39:00 AM

Then you shouldn't be bothered by what Bitcoingirl.club said -- that falls under the very freedoms you just mentioned. Freedom should be borderless; otherwise, it becomes selective or even fake. The moment you say someone shouldn't say this or that, you're already chipping away at their freedom.

If someone wants to be mean, an asshole, hateful, or even outright evil -- that still falls within their frame of freedom. Freedom is not only for the kind or agreeable. It's either for everyone and everything, or it doesn't exist at all.

Let's be honest. No human being can like everything and not be bothered by anything. I am certainly bothered by what BitcoinGirl.club wrote and I am not gonna lie. I am not bothered too much, I 've better things to do, but it was a small repetition (much much smaller) of the unsettling feeling that I got when a user attacked o_e_l_e_o with a death wish, in o_e_l_e_o's farewell post.

A life without counter-arguments would be pointless. Or, imagine a life where we all agreed to everything. It would be boring. But selectively ignoring people in my life is a right. Leaving toxic behaviours out of my life is a right. We 're all in the same society and I didn't say I want to remove them from the society. I just said, we can co-exist without paying attention to one another.

I talked about freedom and you 're right to say freedom is borderless. However, how did I chip away at their freedom? I just ignored the user and to be honest, that's my freedom too. And not only it's my freedom, but it's also a great way to support it. We 're both parts of the same forum, but I chose to stop interacting with this specific user. Btw, I am sure everyone have developed their ignore lists after all these years in the forum. It's normal!