RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 4, 2015 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2015 at 5:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 4, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Nestor Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Chuck Wrote: Practically, sustainable freedom of speech is incompatible with complete freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not a suicide pact. Those who argue principles forgets it is the concession to the practical that allows any principle to be worth anything at all.Advocating a person's right to provoke through speech is not tantamount to a "suicide pact." I fail to see the relevancy of your point.
Advocating a person's right to provoke in such a way as to predictably put others at risk who did not consent to embrace the risk is a very gray area.
But the suicide pact statement is specifically directed not at the organizer of the draw Mohammed stunt, but at the neo-Nazi Association of holocaust deniers. Practical history suggest there is very good and practical cause to believe allowing some groups freedom of expression would be a suicide pact for civil and reasonably society.
So forceful suppression of certain speech may be completely essential for the preservation of freedom of other speech.
