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RE: Nasty individual on Steemit
I agree with free speech but I also agree with morals, if everyone said what they felt openly we would have an awful world, Imagine a world where you walk down the street and say you had terrible burns on your face and some person like the individual in question starts screaming at you how ugly you are and you should just kill yourself, then you have people fat shaming people walking openly, others shouting the N word, others picking on disabled people etc etc. I respect your view that free speech should be free but I think theirs a fine line between free speech and abuse to be fair.
Non the less thank you for your comment.
Having been mercilessly bullied for most of my life, I can say that I'd rather have the freedom of speech than not be called names.
Also, those who commit suicide do it because they are suicidal, not because they are called names. I've never been suicidal for one second out of my whole ad hominem riddled life.
The fine line between free speech and abuse is a hard line that can be demonstrated in court. It is the difference between those simply called names, and those who can demonstrate physical or financial injury.
That's awful to hear and I can totally relate as I was bullied most of my younger years but I have to admit had someone taught them kids and stopped them from name calling I would have grown up differently, the damage name calling causes is subject to the individual.
I also have never been suicidal due to bullying but it affects others differently, I hear so many stories of people trolled on facebook and social media and have died by suicide because it has affected them profoundly. That is why I think people should have free speech but use that privelidge with morals and respect for others whom it may affect.