Two minute silence

[ciphergoth]

At 12:00 BST today, London and many around the world observed a two minute silence for the 48 people who died in the terrorist attacks on London on 7 July.

During those two minutes, approximately 42 children worldwide died due to poverty.

We are not going to let terrorists cause us to lose perspective.

Comments

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Ah, he has every right to be offended, he has no right to actively censor others' words.

[djm4]

True, but ciphergoth wasn't actively censoring anyone. I wasn't thinking straight when I read his post, and menatlly skipped right over the 'if' in:

'...if you're not prepared to stand by them yourself you should retract them.'

I too believe people should retract statements that they're not prepared to stand by, although it's a feeling of mine that they're at liberty to ignore. I also don't think that posting something with comments disabled is the same as making a post that you're not prepared to stand by, and I suspect that this is where ciphergoth and I have a bigger disagreement, but that's not itself an issue of censorship.