Freedom of Speech and Opinion

As a communicator I find it extremely offensive to be told or asked to censor myself.

The opinions expressed on this blog are exactly that. Opinions. Thoughts. Ideas.

None of the posts on this blog are intended to insult or ridicule anyone. If people disagree with anything I have posted here you are completely entitled to do so. I would never try to stop someone from having an opinion.

Since nothing on my blog is illegal or propagating hate I will not delete any of my posts. My reaction to anyone trying to censor me is "Don't read my blog." That certainly is your choice.

There are many novels I've come across in my life as a student that I didn't like nor did I even finish reading them because of the content, but I wouldn't have burned any of those books. A couple examples being, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. These two novels actually were on the reading list for a university course called The Writer and Society. While I think both of these novels were well written. I didn't like the content, so guess what I did? That's right, I closed the cover, and said "no thank you." I highly doubt I offended either author by not finishing the read.

I am not in the same league as the above mentioned authors, but the fundamentals are the same.