Of mice and mice

When did free speech become the excuse for behaving like an idiot? I'm all for freedom of speech, but I don't think using it to be petty is exactly a noble use of the privilege.

You can just imagine what those in oppressive regimes make of people who use their freedom of speech to call people 'low-grade bank clerks'.

I mean really..

I've tried to articulate a thought I have quite frequently on here for a while but never got it down satisfactorily. It boils down to a 'great power/great responsibility' type thing; essentially yes we have freedom of speech, but just because we can say something doesn't mean we should. It seems that in our great media age this would probably be lost on a lot of people.

I usually have a lot more than that swirling in my mind tank but I think it's too transient to nail down. As is usually the case I end up writing myself in circles and not posting.

So be glad that I got some of it out at least.

I'm a little further along in my plans post-26 March, but it remains to be seen what timeframe we're looking at here.

Have a nice weekend y'all..