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[leo9]

One of the most annoying reviewers, who's appalling, lazy and annoying reviews I seem doomed to encounter all over the site (and whose indolent, inexpressive, unhelpful banalities have provoked this rant), put, in one of these "I live in the USA, where we have a right to express our opinion", which is not only a fatuous argument and a fundamental misunderstanding of the crucial points of freedom of speech, but also a total failure to understand the responsibility such a right confers.

Speaking from the benighted lands where we have to make ourselves heard without the blessings of the US Constitution...

You will find, if you read more widely than the reviews, that this slogan usually indicates a belief that it absolves one not only from any need to consider the effect of one's words but also from any need to check one's facts or give evidence for one's statements, and that anyone questioning the accuracy of one's pronouncements is attacking one's sacred freedom of speech. In other words, it gives fair warning not to try to engage the writer in any kind of reasoned debate, because they have given notice that they don't do that kind of thing.