(March 22, 2022 at 7:59 pm)Foxaire Wrote: It is astounding how people still confuse consequence for censorship.
You're free to speak your mind, but wisdom allows for the understanding that consequence isn't disgarded in a civilized society.
There are some very confused people around here. But I'm not one of them. Sure, at one point in referring to freedom of speech I referred to the second amendment. Somebody corrected me and I knew instantly that they were right. A little slip up now and then is no big deal. But as far as consequences and censorship, that doesn't apply to me. You see, if I am right, there are no consequences. If I am banned for being right, that is censorship. Now if I expressed an opinion, that might be a different matter. Let's say that somebody said that the only way for negroes to be useful is if they were turned into toilet paper. I could see them getting banned for voicing such an opinion. Though under the principle of freedom of speech, they shouldn't be. An interesting point though is if I said it, I could prove it far beyond anybody's ability to doubt. I just wouldn't be given the chance to do so.
