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Old 07-29-2015, 03:03 PM   #167
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
It's not my right nor yours, sitting behind a computer screen, to mete out life-destroying "justice" to human beings because we, in our subjective wisdom, have decided that it's "necessary" in this case. .
In a free society, everything not forbidden is permitted. He has the right to go off and spend his money to skirt poaching laws to hunt lions, and we have the right to find that deplorable and express our opinion in public to that effect.

Whether people should exercise that right in a particular situation is another question entirely, but to say it's not our right to do so is utterly and completely wrong. If you're going to argue against internet shaming, you need to demonstrate why a particular issue isn't worthy of the outrage, and not argue uselessly that people don't have the right to feel and express outrage at all because it's "subjective".
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