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What are your opinions?

Elaborate if you will, please.

2006-10-16 07:01:04 · 23 answers · asked by . 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Blackacre...you possess a unique ability to cut right to the heart of the matter. I like that.

2006-10-16 07:09:02 · update #1

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I agree wholeheartedly UNLESS the right to say it is utilized to infringe upon another's right to be left peacefully alone. For example, I will defend the right to religious or anti-religious speech, but will not defend one's right to use that speech to send others to concentration camps.

2006-10-16 07:04:38 · answer #1 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 6 2

two cents pling pling
This statement in my opinion should be modified because sometimes one pushes his own freedom over anothers head, or a persons freedom stops where the next persons nose begins, the old not a good idea to yell fire in crowded theater


in this forum, if people are stirring up hate against one group and on the outside many others are doing the same and that group who is the terget is for the most part peaceful and not violent and the ones stirring might easily stand to profit then I think special precautions are in order. Usually actions like described would be like yelling in a theater where a few people are. So they get up run and ha ha they got inconvenienced big deal not happy ,, perhaps angry but kids will be lidds lets not hang um out to dry but maybe grouding is in order at least from the theater. However when merchants have had a goal in the past and wanted to raise an army and in the end profit off of war they have used gullible people into religion, who have zeal only for being protective over that which they hold dear namely their object of worship. Crusadea is a great example for which we are to this day paying a price.

If someone is fanning such flames then freedom of speach gives him a tool,,, a hammer to hit us all over the head.

The question is how do you know when this is happening and what do you do about it. History is full of examples of this happening. My thought is it was very likely done right here in this country not too long ago. people who have a large audience evil minds and freedom of speach----mixing with very stupid
masses of people???

I prize freedom of speach but when good people do nothing (and that seems to be the status quo round these parts) then merchants see this freedom as a very profitable situation and they have no limit to what they will do for a buck.

Should a company be able to buy up the airwaves to a point where each hour of TV entertainment is more advertizing than the program, when they monopolize your phone with telephone adds, etc. etc. is this a good use of freedom of speech. News is fun and controlled buy merchants, they used their money in mass madia to elect corporate cronies, put meat packers in positions to contro meat quality, I heard the other day that they hired a fox to broadcast news or was that to guard the hen house.

I love freedom of speach but now that money can buy mass audiences I think some people smarter than me need to regulate this freedom in a way to promote freedom of speech but to regulate that freedom to people with lotsa money.
could write all morning

guess it afternoon but Thats cuz once again when I said something controversial I lost Yahoo, I no i am paranoid

2006-10-16 11:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0 2

Actually, I've lived my life by that saying. I have strong opinions as to what I believe. But others are entitled to believe as they wish. I served 20 years in the Army defending the rights of people to say, think and do things that I may not personally agree with.

2006-10-16 07:04:28 · answer #3 · answered by Char 7 · 6 0

Most people will say that they agree wholeheartedly with this statement. If only we backed it up with our actions. Maybe Y!A isn't a true microcosm of society, but it is sometimes a picture of hate and intolerance. When I first started on this forum, I thought you were supposed to vote "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on the basis of the quality of the answer, that is, if you thought the answer was informative, apt, etc. But people position their thumbs based on whether they agree or disagree with the content. Worse, the knee-jerk hateful responses some get to seemingly calm questions never ceases to amaze me. We certainly do not live by this quote on Y!A. And judging by the news, we don't live by it in American society either.

2006-10-16 07:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by LisaT 5 · 3 1

It has to do with how strongly one feels about freedom of speech. If there is someone who posts something that I disagree with or find repulsive here, I wouldn't tell them to get lost or stop posting because they have a right to their own opinion. I may say that I disagree, which is also my right. I know that I have no business trying to censor opinions thta are not similar to mine.

2006-10-16 07:05:05 · answer #5 · answered by Brainiac 4 · 2 0

well, of course voltaire would say that, since his own opinions that he so cheerfully advocated the right to say were that negroes were nothing more than primitive animals, and jews are greedy scum needing to be exterminated.

he also was highly distasteful of democracy. he believed that a monarchy where the "stupid masses" were controlled by a king was the best form of government.

voltaire said a lot of great things, but that doesn't stop him from being a bigot. anything he says is suspect.

and no, i don't agree with that particular quote of his. a person who willfully tries to damage a society with hateful remarks has no right to anything in that society which he tries to diminish. he is owed nothing.

2006-10-16 07:09:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5 1

i agree to a point. such that i may not agree with quite a few things people do, but im pro choice, i think everyone should be able to make up their own minds about how they live their life. however i wont defend someones "freedom of speech" if its pertaining to how OTHERS should live. i will not defend someone whos saying "you cant live that way" because ur in turn taking away someone elses freedom.

2006-10-16 07:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

I may not agree with what you are saying but I will die for your right to say it. freedom was once worth dieing for. Many men have died to protect our civil liberties...They thought them worthy of dieing for Now we shamefully and cheaply give them away in the name of safety. How do we repay these that sacrificed there lives for something we hold with so little value? How is it so many here say they agree then if asked if surrendering liberties to fight terror is good and they will also agree.

2006-10-16 07:07:15 · answer #8 · answered by djmantx 7 · 2 0

y This is exactly the way I live my life...I always stick up for the underdog, and it usually gets me in trouble...but I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they can do what they want, within reason, and practice any religion they want. And no one should criticize or make fun of them, for that.
AND THAT'S THE TRUTH!

2006-10-16 07:48:26 · answer #9 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 1 0

I agree.

I may not agree with Jim Darwin. But he's got a right to his point of view without persecution.

I may not agree with my gay friend's lifestyle. But I will defend his right to live without persecution.

I may disagree with the tenants of my Muslim neighbor's faith, but I will defend his right to have it.

2006-10-16 07:04:03 · answer #10 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 5 0

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