On Censorship (please don't censor this)

[Final-Fan]

Dejackso said:

Final-Fan said:

BenKenobi88 said:
It doesn't matter anymore...he's become a general nuisance, and the point is moot.

I very strongly disagree. Plenty of U.S. Supreme Court cases haven't ultimately mattered as to the individuals in question: Dredd Scott was going to be freed anyway, but the point of law the case was arguing was very important.

Crucial is currently banned for three months. This is appropriate given his behavior since he was banned. But the ban was inappropriate in the first place given his behavior before he was banned.

How can discussing what went wrong, with an eye towards formulating rules to prevent it from happening again, be undesirable?

Did you just compare the Dred Scott case to a person being banned on a message board? You do realize that Dred Scott lost his case to become an American citizen and was, in fact, returned as property.

I realize that the comparison is not equal, and I know what the result was. I just wanted an example of the [edit:  end verdict being unimportant to the fruits of the discussion]; that was the first one I thought of, and I saw no reason to go hunting for another. I am not trying to say they are equivalent.