[Dialogue] Free Speech

[KarenBueno at aol.com]

Yes, John Epps, freedom presupposes responsibility for most of  us, but the 
irresponsible do not necessarily agree to what their responsibility  
includes.  Free to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, when there is no  fire?  The 
question to me is how to extend free speech to those who do not  recognize 
that as a human right.  Violence is not that which is NOT  punished.  Speech 
itself, in our understanding, is what is NOT  punished.
 
Karen Bueno
 
 
In a message dated 9/18/2012 5:07:23 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
jlepps at pc.jaring.my writes:

We have  no trouble with the principle that “Your freedom to swing your 
fists ends  where my nose begins.” Might that not also apply to statements that 
insult,  demean or otherwise vilify other people?  


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