I was just thinking along similar lines.
Why do some posters think that freedom of speech requires that good manners, civility and common courtesy are left at the door?
Isn't that the very thing we accuse the libs of doing?
I find it sad to see it replicated here. I long for a return to civility where we understand that:
"Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them in a great measure, the Laws depend. The Law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them."
Edmund Burke