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Nobody talked about changing rights. People have the right to speak, and others have the right to reciprocate. We should voluntarily practice tolerance toward each other because the fragile apparatus of society breaks if we don't.


Asking respondents to be tolerant is limiting their freedom of speech in the name of civility. I find that troubling, especially given that most folks on the receiving end of a "social media mob" is because they said something others perceived to be intolerant.




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