Free speech comes with a price, and that is the ridiculous sensitivity of our populace. We're too easily offended by little things, little statements, tiny pictures no one in the world would care about. But they do, because they realize that mankind has a tendency to be profane and otherwise disrespectful -- the best representation of this would be porn and debilitating software. If you're composed of genius, why use it to screw over people? Why unleash something like that, something that can very well backfire on yourself?

And the worst part is, a majority of Americans are computer-illiterate. It can be one e-mail, one IM, and your computer's dead, dying...done. We could remedy this two ways - tracking the assailants, but also taking steps to teach ourselves to help ourselves. It may be new technology, but things aren't going to revert to the way they were anytime soon. Feel like your dot matrix still has the power to give you what you want? Think again. Times change, and people have to change with them.

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