1st March 2003, 10:31 PM
I already stated that you don't have the right to not hear stuff that offends you. You don't have to believe it, you don't have to pay attention. You may have to be there and hear it, but you don't have to listen (you do realize that hearing and listening are two different things, listening being the one where you comprehend it). Oh, and don't get into some stupid subconcious thing. Like I said, I had to be in those pep rallies every single year, but it's not like they committed some horrible sin by forcing something I didn't believe in on me. They just did it and I happened to be there and couldn't leave in any practical manner.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)