RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 5, 2015 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2015 at 7:56 pm by IATIA.)
(May 4, 2015 at 10:57 pm)robvalue Wrote: Free speech doesn't mean no consequences to speech. Of course I'm talking about legal action, not vigilante action.
I agree that deciding whether or not someone "incited hatred or violence" is a judgement call. But then welcome to the club, that's morality for you. It doesn't mean it's a bad system.
IMHO, one cannot "incite" something that is not already present. Let us try some history. Back a few hundred years ago, though people were not happy with things as they were nothing was being done about it until a small group of 'rebels' incited the populace to rise up against the king of England and declare their independence.
ALL speech must remain FREE. No ands ifs or buts about it. One little transgression against this right and it is no longer a right and has nowhere to go but real bad. It is not a judgment call, it is a right. It is not a privilege, it is a right.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
