Who Decides What's "Right"?

How much do you enjoy saying things to hurt people? How important is it to you to say things that you know will make people crazy? How often are you impressed by maliciously hateful behavior that is someone's "right" to display? Even LinkedIn won't remove things that are aggressive and divisive, because they're not "bad enough" to merit deletion.

I always love it when Americans flaunt their "freedom of speech", in a public venue. They love to say inappropriate things that are offensive, and pointlessly confrontational things in a disrespectful way. With a grin on their faces. They are shameless and narcissistic.

A cheerleader is being looked at by the SCOTUS. Because she swore.

Yes. Swearing is immature behavior. Insulting people is divisive. Fighting just to make a personal statement that you and your opinions are more important than someone else's is never gong to have a good outcome--for you or the people you're insulting. But the people in the United States base their own personal value on their freedom to say whatever they're thinking that comes with their political independence.

They want their rights to come without any responsibilities. They want absolute freedom to exist without the accountability that comes with their choices. They want independence to be without the consequences or expectations of follow-through. So, let's consider it from a very fundamental principle, a question that I hear, literally, hundreds of times/day (because I take public transportation and interact with thousands of people, here and there).

"What's the point of being well-behaved?"

Will there be any good outcome from keeping yourself in check and just closing your mouth if you have the powerful urge to be cruel and hateful--that would make it worth it? Or would the United States fall apart as a world power if the people who live here made a collective decision to behave in a more loving, adult, respectful, mature way and stop abusing their "freedom of speech" as a weapon of emotional mass-destruction?

Would the social influence of the United States be compromised if its citizens were nice people? Would their citizens' self-esteem be reduced if they were thoughtful and considerate of others, before they said or did things that only served their own selfish purposes? Well, as long as the Supreme Court says something's not a crime, that, by definition, makes it an "okay" thing to do, I guess?

I've always said, "I'm not in any way American. I was born here. I've lived here all of my life and I will probably die here. But I completely disagree with the general philosophy of the extremely obsessive "Freedom" that this entire society (I don't call it a culture) bases its personal value system on.

Freedom is overrated, because it's seldom used in a healthy, responsible, unselfish, and mature way by loving people. It's only passionately enforced by hatefully divisive monsters who will fight shamelessly to the death just to be able to enforce it."