Reply #70: I'd be ashamed, myself

[iverglas]

Just totally baffling...
...that you would draw the first amendment line here.

I'd be abjectly if I ever, ever in my life knowingly made a completely false statement impugning another person's character, for the purpose of publicly vilifying and discrediting him/her.

If I did it out of stupidity, I'd be ashamed enough, but I'd hope I would have the decency to retract it and apologize.

But if I were repeatedly challenged to offer any evidence in support of the statement I had made, and provided with all the information I needed to understand that it was false, and made it again anyhow, I'd probably just ask somebody to shoot me.

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