Quote Originally Posted by Alex Bragi
It's respect verses inappropriate civil conduct. I believe in the right to protest, but I also believe that the right to protest should not override civil rights of others.

Finally, (for now) I want to make one thing here crystal clear, if you want to buy a flag, take it home and throw down in your back yard, stomp on it, spit on it, burn it, or whatever, I don’t give a monkey nut's about it. But please, just have little respect for those who might find it offensive, consider them, and consider using another form of protest.
We don't (or at leasted we haven't so far) amend(ed) the Constitution to force people to "have a little respect". Furthermore, I'm sure that some people in the 60's and 70's thought that burning bras in protest was "offensive". Are we to amend the Constitution to prohibit that form of protest?

It is not that I don't find flag-burning offensive, I do.
But just because I, or even "the majority", find something is offensive doesn't mean it should be outlawed. More importantly, at least to me, we don't use a nuclear weapon to kill a fly at a picnic simply because the fly bothers us. Yes, the fly will be destroyed but so will the picnic.

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