Which sickens you more, people who burn the flag, or people who want to ban flag burning.?

Question

I'm more sickened by people who want to burn the flag and sorta hold my nose metaphorically when I say I want to defend their first amendment right to do so,

kinda one of those i disagree with what you are saying but defend your right to say it kind of thing.

Thats just me.

Your feelings?

Answer 1

I would never burn a flag, but at the same time, never restrict the right for some f*cking moron to do so.

Allow flag burning and allow society to deal with the person burning the flag. Believe me, the flag burner won't be able to get a job and will probably get beat up a lot by mad citizens.

Answer 2

I wouldn't say "sicken".

If I have to choose one or the other I'll keep the one burning the flag (as long as it's his flag).
He's wrong. It's a lousy way to make a point. But he's protected by the first amendment.
The other one is infringing the first amendment.

The flag is just a piece of cloth with colors. It's not the flag what's really worth something, it's what the flag represents. The flag can be replaced, the free speech right won't be back if you let someone take it away.
It doesn't matter how mad does it make you, if you violate his right to free speech you burn the principles that the flag represents while he just burnt a piece of cloth.

The first amendment is there to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech needs no protection.

Please people, understand that there's a huge difference between the flag and what the flag represents. We can't keep following a flag blindly, that's what governments want because they're the ones waving the flag in the direction that's more convenient for them. Meanwhile, the real things, the things that the flag represents, are being taken away from you. And you can't see that if you're looking at the flag.
The flag is nice, the flag should be respected, but as long as we understand that we're not talking about the flag. It's a symbol. If the things that the flag represents are lost, then the flag is worth nothing.
That's the real point of the flag burning. That guy is trying to say that, for him, the flag is worthless (or about to be).
Again, I think that there are better ways to make that point.

Answer 3

is this question approximately flag burning or the fairness Doctrine? %. one, relatively of blurring the two at the same time. The flag subject is concern-unfastened, and intensely American. we've a awesome to dissent, and buring the flag is between the main intense approaches. yet to outlaw flag buring might make us fascist. "purely as conflict is freedom's value, conflict of words is freedom's privilege." No desires to assist flag burning; certainly, it fairly is kinda the factor. yet to make it unlawful? that must be antagonistic by each and every genuine patriot. The flag represents the awesome to burn it. era. in case you do no longer understand that, spend it sluggish studying with regards to the 1st modification. and consistent with probability think again all those activities surrounding the Boston Tea occasion. As for the fairness Doctrine, it fairly is fairly a crimson herring, no? It has no longer been enforced via fact the late Eighteen Eighties. attempt choosing some thing to counter stability the flag subject with that an argument that has teeth. that relatively impacts human beings.

Answer 4

That's the thing, the first amendment is freedom of speech and burning a flag is not speech but rather an act so the two are totally opposite. Yes it sickens me more to see people burn the flag, the flag I have said my pledge to all these years, the flag I served under when I was in the military, the flag I saluted while I was in the military and they are rubbing in my face. I feel that they are a bunch of whinny liberal kids that are spinning the first amendment and fashioning it to their will and not what it actually means.

Answer 5

Both actions are stupid.

A constitutional ammendment to ban flag burning is not just a huge waste of time - there are far more important things our legislators can be doing - it's also a violation of the constution. Flag burning is free speech. It may not be smart or convincing free speech, but it is a protected activity.

I love this country, warts and all. It's not perfect, but it's the best country there is. I don't like seeing foreigners burn our flag, nor do I like seeing someone in this country do it. But it doesn't harm me. It doesn't harm anyone. It's a symbol. It's their way of saying they hate this country and what it stands for.

Now if you ask me how I feel about deporting all flag-burners, that's another issue. If you don't like it here, you can work to change things or you can leave. Burning our flag is neither.

Answer 6

That's a tough one. Usually the pathetic ones who burn the flag are the same ones who will be first to wrap themselves in it when push comes to shove.

That said, America is all about freedom, and I am loathe to bar anyone from excercising it, even if it makes them look like a world class A$$.

Answer 7

What an isilly, boring non-issue. The noose, the swastika, the swiftboaters, the Klan, the Nazis, the rednecks all bother me more.

I don't even remember the last time a flag was burned in America for any reason, yet people need to have this button to push to further their ignorant sense of being patriotic without having to really work at it. Tell me, when have you seen a flag burned... no, don't bother, you haven't and you know it. It is remarkably rare. I've been to hundreds of demos and never seen it there. Ever. Demonstrators are usually patriotic, otherwise they wouldn't even bother to express their opinion.

I think it is a greater crime to pollute someone's water supply than it is to burn a flag.

Many probably believe polluting is OK if someone makes money on it.

Money is their real flag.

The other ones, the tiny flags we have to wave at parades, are usually made in China since we can't provide enough jobs for our own people.

Answer 8

Actually, neither one. I don't believe in burning the flag and I simply have to laugh at anyone who does burn the flag.
I can't see what they think they are accomplishing. You can't burn my country or the love I have for my country by burning my flag. It just makes them look silly.
I know how many have died for that flag and the freedom it represents, and no matter what others do to it, that will never change

Answer 9

You burn the flag when it touches the ground, but you are not supposed to let it touch the ground. If it does it is disgraced it is like surrendering. Many people are un-aware of this fact for they are well not educated in flag etiquette

Answer 10

What sickens me is that people waste time on a non-issue like this...WHO CARES...it is a piece of CLOTH....MAKE ANOTHER ONE.

I don't think people should do it, I think it is disrespectful, much like men who do not remove their hats for the anthem, but there are much bigger fish to fry than this.

The constitution gives people the right to burn the flag if they want to....MOVE on.....actually trying to take that right away is more damaging to this country and what the flags stands for then the burning of a piece of cloth....Go to Walmart (as I'm sure that's where most of you bought yours) and get a new one.

The conservatives use this issue to distort from REAL issues....

I'm more concerned with the soldiers coming home in a flag draped box than I am if someone wants to burn it.