I could be wrong. Maybe they do. But most of us understand that in the real world, when we're in large groups, we control our impulses to blurt out whatever pops into our heads. Put some of us online, however, and, because we're typing instead of talking, we seem to develop some kind of online Tourette's syndrome that impels us to write perfectly shocking things. And worse, it suggests that brutal frankness is somehow desirable.
Free speech is such a beautiful thing.
I am so glad he felt comfortable sharing that. I usually assume that if I went ahead and told everybody everything on my mind at any given moment, I'd get my ass kicked. And rightly so. If you don't give a person at least the option of ducking out with some dignity, you're never going to stop fighting. It just doesn't take a lot of gray matter to call somebody a jerkoff.