2006-11-19 18:53:13 · 5 answers · asked by Desert Sienna 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There should be more 'freedom' of speech in the US.
All sorts of reactionary censorship.
And it's stupid because no one listens anyway unless it's blaring over the television.
i don't really give a sh'it anyway-- whether someone wants to stand on a soapbox dowtntown and talk to himself, that's great. We'll just turn up the volume on our iPods.
I think people in theater should be able to scream FIRE!
Nobody give a sh'it anyway. Probably get some nasty nachos thrown at you. I've never been in a modern building and thought -- hmm this MFer could burn down, I better be prepared. Everything is made out of fkn concrete, anti-flammatory everything-- and Where's the fire coming from anyway? ridiculous.
In court, when I'm accused of lible or whatever in the future I'm not going to lie. I'll just tell the jury I speak a different language. I have an idiolect where "Bush told me personally he %*%^&* Cheney in the Oval office" means something untranslatably different than what it appears in English. It's just a coincidence that most of my words seem to refer in the same way English does, but it's not true. I have my own language. That's not illegal.
F'uck you.
2006-11-19 19:26:34 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolute freedom? No. I don't think that you should be free to insight people to commit violence. I'm sure that there are other things I don't think people should be allowed to say, but that will do for a start, it breaks the absolute. You don't get to discuss military secrets in my world either, some things need not to be talked about or our people get killed.
You do get to tell the vice president he's a moron when you meet him in a public place though, and you shouldn't get arrested for that, though the guy who did it was.
2006-11-20 03:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with absolute anything, without a system of checks and monitors it would lead to anarchy.
I do agree with freedom of speech, as Voltaire said "I may disagree with what you say, but would defend to the death your right to say it."
2006-11-20 03:19:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jez 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With freedom comes responsibility. If I respect your right to freedom, you will respect my right not to be abused.
2006-11-20 05:15:55 · answer #4 · answered by panenka_chip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absoluteness always is fraught with danger
2006-11-20 03:58:05 · answer #5 · answered by R Purushotham Rao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋