That doesn’t mean that it is OK for people to be rude, hectoring, obnoxious. It’s not OK, but you don’t have a “right” to be free from it unless it constitutes sustained abuse and harassment, which it usually doesn’t. Instead of protecting your rights, exercise your freedoms instead and ignore your combatant or put them back in their box with a withering retort. The flip side is that just because you have the freedom to be rude, hectoring, obnoxious, you have no “right” to be so, and anyway it still makes you a ******.
Posted by Pete Collins 
