Sysonby wrote:And we can't comment on something you post Heidilady? If that isn't arrogant, I don't know what is.
My point was if you don't like what I say but it's my opinion, offer your contradictory view but don't tell me to shut up. You're better off saying nothing if all you can think of is to tell someone where to stick their free speech. All some folks are doing is going on and on about how it's all rumor and to stop with the character assassination but it's only that, in my opinion, if it's wrong information. If you can't show that it's in error for sure, then why bother arguing in defense of someone beyond pointing out that it's rumor once instead however bloody many times we have on this thread. Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson were both victims of rumor too if you wanna play that game. Innocent until proven guilty is legal system jargon...has nothing whatsoever to do with public opinion, fortunately or unfortunately. People have opinions based on people, foreign policy, domestic policy, animals, you name it that aren't entirely justified but tides turn on public opinion.
I just got through doing a presentation on the death penalty for underaged defendents and the mentally handicapped, showing the changes over the last 15 years or so. Did you realize that it was partially decided, significantly so, based on consensus? As in 'what do the American people (and in the end the global population too) feel on this?' In theory, it's either right or it's wrong but how people felt about an issue even if it was based on cultural peer pressure, became the consensus to end the practice. I guess some might argue that the justices should make a decision without factoring that in but they do it and have for decades and if it's good enough for the US Supreme Court....that's what I'm saying. Peer pressure can save lives as evidenced here or it can ruin them. Definitely though it shapes the "real world" and that's a fact.
