Like for example, religious groups picketing abortion clinics, or groups like the ACLU trying to give organzations like the KKK or NAMBLA rights to assemble freely, where would we be? would we be better off as a society or just stuck in a rut?
2006-10-04 11:29:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Have you ever heard of the Communist party- One party- one choice.
Once you start down the road of limiting access and rights such as speach, and the right to assemble then you limit all freedoms.
Though in theory it sound delightful - not to have the quarrels, the fighting, and riots, in practice you end up with control over your very thoughts.
Talk to someone who has lived in Mother Russia/ USSR before the fall. Ask them what it was like. There is no teacher like experience.
2006-10-05 10:59:04 · answer #1 · answered by NW_iq_140 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be a miserable place to live. Freedom of speech is an ideal that I truly believe in.
You may not like something, or believe in it, but because it can have rights that makes America better.
2006-10-04 18:40:03 · answer #2 · answered by BuffyFromGP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
which came first ---
special interest groups having an influence on politics...
or the politics shaping a society in order to allow special
interest groups to matter when it comes to politics?
2006-10-04 18:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by shatzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If no person or group was allowed to make massive political contributions to candidates in order to buy support for their own interests, you might begin to have real democracy.
2006-10-04 18:54:37 · answer #4 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋