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"Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the 1st Amendment apply to the government? I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, as long as I respect the rules of the property owner of whose property I am on. While the government can't make him stand, you have every right to state your opinion to him. Do it out of respect for this great Nation, he has done nothing to EARN your respect and everything to lose it. "
You are right that he has the right to talk to his friend. Your tone changed (where I bolded the letters) to that of a nationalist. Your underlying tone is teach him a lesson he does not deserve respect.
Look, give it up. Everyone here either agrees or disagrees. You cannot take back what you said and you cannot change the nature of which you said it.
And you are trying to backtrack. I think you felt vindicated when you wrote it and feel differently now that I have proven you wrong.
Just leave it alone and I will too.
No, I don't think he was telling me to take the kid out back and knock his teeth out or anything, but to call him on it and challenge his positions, kinda like we're doing here. Marine never mentioned violence, nor that it was my duty to America to do so.
So why don't YOU give it up and stop trying to debate words that were never spoken?
My point of the post was that you have the right to be dissentful and all, but some things go beyond the point being made and become disrespectful. In my opinion, guided by my principles and personal code of conduct, respect should always be given (unless they have proven to be unworthy of respect, then all is fair game...to a degree, though) and class should be held in high regard. I'm not seeing that from very many people.
Oh, and Marine, myself and another classmate (this classmate being a true-to-form Moderate) did talk to him last year. He said little more than, "IT'S MY RIGHT NOT TO STAND UP!!"...it actually reminded me of, how in a touch-football game, there's always the guy that isn't content with a simple push with the hands so insists on form-tackling everyone; since the tone of the conversation was relaxed and friendly. Well, for a little while.