2007-06-12 13:14:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Ryan you will get your gun are u a numbskull? i hope u pro gun types meet your maker by the insane laws you allow eg get shot
2007-06-12 13:36:45 · update #1
I think freedom of speech is more important but I think their is line between having freedom of speech and offending someone, like deliberately offending people just to start up trouble, spread hate etc is wrong but giving your opinions is ok.
2007-06-12 13:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by xoɟ ʍous 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am all for freedom of speech, and yes it is more important. Some people are terrified to talk about what is important to them, in case they offend anyone.
It is like a Minister standing in the pulpit frightened to preach the word of God, so tells the congregation just to sing hymns instead. I say people like this are sitting on the fence. They just want to be everybody friend.
2007-06-12 16:04:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the place do you draw the line between valid dissent and being offensive? We agree that communities like Westboro Baptist or the KKK are offensive and egregious, yet what approximately Republicans, now that they are the minority? What approximately Tea celebration contributors and sympathizers? many human beings view them as ignorant, extremely-conservative, and particularly circumstances even racist, however the pass itself keeps that it extremely is none of those issues. the issue with drawing the type of line is that it extremely is inherently arbitrary, as you may discover from the above. even regardless of the undeniable fact that, as quickly as you have drawn it, somebody with greater political clout can erase that line and draw a clean one. So abridging one guy or woman's or one communities rights in the call of no longer being offensive opens the doorway to abridging different human beings's rights for a similar reason, and permit's settle for it: offensiveness is slightly too nebulous a favourite to apply as a rubric to make certain valid dissent. extra, the form itself neither specifies nor implies something approximately whether or no longer speech could or should not be offensive. i might pass extra and say that most of the reforms that we've engaged in as a rustic have been deeply offensive to the then-contemporary way of staring at issues: slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, prohibition and its repeal, in basic terms to call some. blockading speech because of fact it extremely is offensive closes the door on many reforms that would somewhat be obtainable to us.
2016-10-09 02:13:10 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freedom of speech and thought is much more important then offending people . right now a new very dangerous wave called the PC movement is making people feel they need to censor their words and even there thoughts .
as far as i am considered this is more dangerous then Hitler ever was
2007-06-13 16:01:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
freedom of speech gives a lot of nut cases a platform to voice their opinions.this is not a bad thing as it gives decent society to view what sort of idiots we have in our country and also give our authorities to keep an eye on them.
the ultimate answer is that they both go hand in hand,you cant have one without the other,ones opinion will offend the other.
2007-06-12 13:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by slashdog2003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom of speech is more important in my opinion. Being offended is the problem of the person who feels offended. And it's a feeling. Nothing should come in the way of ideas and xpressing them.
2007-06-12 13:19:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
"YES" Without a shadow of a doubt. If you are offended, you are too thin skinned. consider the source of your offending .....does that material offend if it really does not matter to you in the beginning. Does that persons opinion really matter that much to you...........
2007-06-12 13:23:46 · answer #7 · answered by Oilfieldtrashwtx 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes freedom of speech is one of the most important freedom. next to bearing arms
2007-06-12 13:20:21 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes: To protect one's right to say something no matter how despicable or stupid is still their american right to say it, (Except for the whole yelling Fire in a crowded theater scenario)
No: It only really works with people with common sense. I can't stand idiots that say stuff just to upset people with no reprocussions, yes you're allowed to say whatever you want, but if I were to come up a mexican gang leader & call him a ****, then I deserve my *** whooping.
2007-06-12 13:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by jmintecu 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am pro- free speech, pro- right to bear arms.
But I am anti- Alibaba
Sorry if I offended you, twinkie.
2007-06-12 16:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋