Oftencold - 8:36 am on Dec 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

hannamyluv,

Perhaps web sites like you describe are a learning opportunity, especially for kids.

It is a chance to demonstrate that even people smart enough, creative enough to produce a web page, a book, a song, or a political platform can be liars.

I know from my own experience that some of us are instinctualy inhibited fromn believing that people do in fact lie. It is hard to balance "love thy neighbor" with "your neighbor may be any type of reprobate."

One could also teach a kid, or reflect for oneself on the mind set and internal processes that are needed to produce such refined hatred in the site author.

a final thing to ponder, that a commentator I enjoy is fond of stating is that another's right to free speech does not have a corresponding duty to us to listen.