David,

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I certainly prefer self-control over external control. Unfortunately, there is not enough self-control of the type that DavidF recently described being put into action here.
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Translation: Other people are not behaving the way you would prefer.

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Any society, including online communities, must have enforceable standards or live with the anarchy that ensues without them.
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And that's a bad thing? Visit the offramp sometime, see what happens when people are free.

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You and I may know that it's wrong to destroy someone else's property or reputation, but there are also enforceable laws dealing with those things in case we don't exercise enough self-control.
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So you think that speech can be the same as destroying property? Guess you don't have much regard for the idea of freedom of speech.

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From dictionary.com:
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Oh puleeeze! Anarchy is freedom, go read some websites and learn to understand what the word means, your dictionary definition is pathetic.

Zane