one of the key points here is GOOD SENSE and RELIABILITY. posting negative comments on line shows NEITHER either for him OR the teacher. the profession does not need someone like that. period. i am fully aware that doctors get drunk, and i only have a problem with it when the doctors are so idiotic that they allow me to find out about it (me, being the public, not a friend). should doctors be held to a higher standard than the rest of the world? YES!
uh, freedom of speech applies to GOVERNMENT censoring people, not private industry/college/etc. if you were an employer, and someone said announced in the middle of your presentation, "HEY YOU FREAKING SUCK! OMG LOLWTF", you have every right to fire them. this is not an instance of freedoms being trampled, as these parties were in a NON-GOVERNMENT agreement. if dick cheney were to say "LOL OMG GEORGE BUSH IS A TARD!" he would be fired. there is no freedom of speech in the sense of the word that everyone likes to apply it to. do i think its a good idea to kick people out of school for posting about un-named crappy professors? no, i dont. but that doesnt mean that they dont have the right to do just that.
now let's be cliche: if you were to yell "FIRE" in a crowded room and several people got trampled to death because of it, or yell "BOMB!" in an airport-- do you think you should not be held accountable for your actions?
this is simply a case of a college responding to a kid making a scene. albeit they were vastly over-reacting in my opinion, this is the case nonetheless and they have every LEGAL RIGHT to do whatever they want to the kid, including expelling him and telling him he can never graduate from their school and never to bother applying again. it IS stupid, and over-reacting, but there is no law against it.
let's not continue this mis-representation of our legal rights. they are something we should all know properly so we dont go on with life believing false statements which are parroted along from one moron to another.
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one of the key points here is GOOD SENSE and RELIABILITY. posting negative comments on line shows NEITHER either for him OR the teacher. the profession does not need someone like that. period. i am fully aware that doctors get drunk, and i only have a problem with it when the doctors are so idiotic that they allow me to find out about it (me, being the public, not a friend). should doctors be held to a higher standard than the rest of the world? YES!
if you want to be a rebel, i can understand a school of doctors wanting nothing to do with you, and i sure as hell wouldnt want you operating on me.
uh, freedom of speech applies to GOVERNMENT censoring people, not private industry/college/etc. if you were an employer, and someone said announced in the middle of your presentation, "HEY YOU FREAKING SUCK! OMG LOLWTF", you have every right to fire them. this is not an instance of freedoms being trampled, as these parties were in a NON-GOVERNMENT agreement. if dick cheney were to say "LOL OMG GEORGE BUSH IS A TARD!" he would be fired. there is no freedom of speech in the sense of the word that everyone likes to apply it to. do i think its a good idea to kick people out of school for posting about un-named crappy professors? no, i dont. but that doesnt mean that they dont have the right to do just that.
now let's be cliche: if you were to yell "FIRE" in a crowded room and several people got trampled to death because of it, or yell "BOMB!" in an airport-- do you think you should not be held accountable for your actions?
this is simply a case of a college responding to a kid making a scene. albeit they were vastly over-reacting in my opinion, this is the case nonetheless and they have every LEGAL RIGHT to do whatever they want to the kid, including expelling him and telling him he can never graduate from their school and never to bother applying again. it IS stupid, and over-reacting, but there is no law against it.
let's not continue this mis-representation of our legal rights. they are something we should all know properly so we dont go on with life believing false statements which are parroted along from one moron to another.