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Originally posted by Dave:
You do no service to the people who died for your country if you do not exercise the rights and freedoms for which they laid down their lives. One of those rights is freddom of expression - which includes flag burning.
and another one of those rights and freedoms is to hate the people who do burn it, is it not?

no one here (as far as i can see) is removing anyone's rights or freedoms by expressing disapproval in the actions of another.


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Originally posted by Dave:
But still, you acknowledge that it means different and often negative things to different people, who can and do react to it in a different way to you - one of those reactions being to burn it.
my main argument at this point, is that most people that burn the flag have no respect in the flag, much less respect in those that do.

the people that are burning it have little or no regard for me or my feelings. they have no respect for what the flag stands for to the millions who have died serving for it. they take no time out to realize the importance that piece of cloth has to families of those who protected it until their last.

bringing up my comic book scenario from before -- something that has great value to you and is destroyed by someone else who has no grasp of what it means is a crime. just, in this case, not by a legal standpoint.