Reply #121: the phenomenon is hardly unique to DUers

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Any system of governance that takes human nature into account will observe herd mentality (like Ben Franklin's fictional-apocryphal "two wolves and a sheep"); that's why our Constitution has checks and balances, and makes flavors du jour like flag burning amendments difficult to shove down everyone's throat (or should, with a semi-awake judiciary).

I don't think it's "parsing" to point out the link named "Cannot Reply" means in fact you cannot reply. You can reply to somebody else's post on the same thread, but that's a "response" in the way a "free speech zone" is a response.