So what must people speak up about before they are affected? What are people sitting idly by as it affects all so that no one is left to speak? Is it this?
I don't know yet. I don't know your plans nor am I able to read your mind. If I could, I promise, I would read a lot more minds before I got around to yours. I would like to know what's in the Colonel's secret recipe for starters.
Which one should people be speaking up in opposition? Do you seek less morality, less justice, and/or less civility in language?
Paraphrasing a movie, The American President "Freedom isn't easy. Freedom is going to make you work for it. It is advanced citizenship. Freedom isn't here to make you comfortable. Freedom is defending to the death, the right of an individual to do, say, or be something you would spend a lifetime arguing against." I amend my own thought to that paraphrase by adding your exercise of freedom shouldn't infringe on another's pursuit. IMO, that should be a given, but some seem to lose sight of that fact. Your rules run counter to that. I don't seek less morality, less civility, or poor language. That's a strawman. I think most who know me would say I am erudite, mostly polite, mostly considerate, and generally treat people well if they treat me well. I am not perfect and wouldn't claim to be. If I find there is something I don't like, or a poster whose prose I don't like, or topic that I find distasteful, there is the ignore function. There is the scroll wheel. There is my better judgement just to not pay any attention when something shouldn't bother me. If it bothers me enough, I might say "hey, this bothers me", try to change your mind, and then move on. See the options above.
Not to draw parallels to Constitutional Rights or make this more grandiose than it is, here is the original movie clip.
-- jim