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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 09:22 AM
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167. Although the context shifts, your calling someone's opinion "rubbish"
is exactly the same honest impulse Corbett exhibited with the word "nonsense."

Don't offer the legal context until you consider that your impulse to use "rubbish" and Corbett's impulse to use "nonsense" to express disagreement with others is exactly the same.

Were you a tax-supported public school teacher in this school district in California, your impulse to use "rubbish" or "nonsense" would be demonstrated by Selna's decision to be 'illegal,' but your impulse to assert disagreement would be honest dialogue.

Corbett may not be a gentle Buddhist seeking blessed union with all things. He might be a rose with thorns, as most of us are. Chad Farnan may not like his teacher much.

But consider again that Corbett's impulse -- and yours -- constitutes honorable disagreement of principle.
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