Some readers of this short subject resource, may believe that
authors who are attacked, should not feel that it is wrong for
those who are doing so or that reviewers who are attacked, should
not feel that it is a wrong action by those perpetrators either. In
reality, both parties should feel that the other involved party has
a right to express her/his opinions about a book or a review but
that it should be done "within reasonable decency." By this term, I
simply refer to published opinions directed at other living people,
not containing attacks, defamation or purposeful twisting of what a
book - or of what a review expresses generally (purposeful
misrepresentation), via one's own public response to them. I've
made similar statements before but I will say again that "freedom
of speech" has had its definition expanded upon by people who would
like to see an anything goes society (at least they think they
would). However, there are laws and online website guidelines that
are supposed to prevent this from happening. They are not placed
there to take away a free society but so that threats of murder,
public rants or threats expressed otherwise, about a persons race,
religion, sex or orientation, are all disallowed. By setting
limitations on a freedom, you prevent chaos from evolving from it
and you actually protect many other rights at the same time. For
example, if one threatens someone else with bodily harm, publicly,
this is an illegal expression that is not free to be practiced and
can lead to the arrest of the guilty party. When you hear some
proponents of freedom of speech and expression, defending that
right (a very proper thing to do, when done in-balance), you would
think that they believe these freedoms were granted to free
societies, so that anything can be said or expressed. However, try
expressing your perceived freedom to walk naked in a public place
for example, and you are guaranteed to be thrown in jail or at
least fined for either misdemeanor or felony "indecent exposure."
There have been blogs created addressing both sides of the
"authors-reviewers wars" issue, being that of authors feeling that
some reviews are going overboard by including attack type language
within them. Some authors on the other hand, are not willing to
receive critical reviews of any kind, even those that are written
in a straightforward, honest fashion but that include some
strongly-dissatisfied language within them (something I have been
falsely accused of complaining about). Anyone... and I do mean
"anyone," who does not see that there literally are two extremes
that exist within the author and reviewer arena, either are in
purposeful denial or they simply aren't paying attention. There are
in fact authors who can't take even honestly-offered criticism and
who actually attack reviewers for giving them an unfavorable review
.... (Much more is covered within the three book Headings listed
below). TABLE OF HEADINGS: HEADING ONE: Is the Authors-Reviewers
War Real or Imagined? HEADING TWO: Integrity Eventually Always Wins
Out... Always HEADING THREE: My Previously-Written Works that
Address This Problem from Other Angles (Total approximate word
count: 7,100 Words)
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