At Carnegie Mellon University, if you want to get a message across, you paint The Fence. It's basically an on-campus billboard for anything that you want to say. Last Friday, people painted it as a memorial to honor two students who had died in the past week. By Sunday night, it was painted to reveal a different message: "Make America Great Again. Trump 2016."

Since we are millennials, we immediately posted about our frustration on Facebook. It's "embarrassing," "pathetic," and "insensitive." However, since any opinion that is posted on the internet is seen by most as an opportunity to start an argument, people responded with: "There's still this thing in America called freedom of speech." Implying, of course, that asking students to not put their support for a racist, sexist, and cruel person in a famously public location over a memorial is equivalent to censorship.

To all of the people who make this argument in any situation: stop it.

It is legal to do a lot of things. It's legal for people to show up drunk to class, to bully someone, or to box up pieces of their own shit and mail them to strangers. You can blow smoke directly into an asthmatic person's face when you smoke a cigarette and you can rip out pieces of your hair and scatter them on others like confetti. In some states, you can legally post naked images of people without their consent or make someone leave your business because they're gay. You can do all of these things, but it's mean and disrespectful. It's embarrassing, pathetic, and insensitive.

The world is not divided into things that are illegal and things that people should not do. There is certainly a lot of overlap, but if you are only using laws to differentiate between right and wrong, you should take a moment to reflect on your decision-making process. If you are using an incredibly vague (and not infallible) law to justify being mean, just stop.

Guess what? People are allowed to tell you to stop doing sh*tty things because we have the right to freedom of speech as well.