Today I have a provoking qustion: Do people really deserve their rights? Keeping in mind people like Terry Jones from Gainesville, FL (the one who burned a mildly popular Islamic religious text) who caused people to lose their lives due to their ridiculous protest, do all people deserve their rights to free speech? Albeit, in this case, he did do more than talking, but lets include this under the umbrella of rights known as Civil Liberties. Are there ever situations when free speech should be limited? Take Schenck v. United States, where limitation of citizens right to free speech was upheld during wartime, when it posed "a clear and present danger" to the nation. Is this something that as a nation founded upon the ideals of freedom to all people, should continue to allow?
What is freedom? Is it something that is just "the ability to do as one pleases" or is it "the ability to do as one pleases*" [*-As long as these freedoms do not restrict the freedoms of others]? I think our definition of freedom may be contributing to the misconception that freedom is infinite. Which it can never be. There is a limited form of freedom which is present, or at least was present in America, but nothing that can be described as "true or total freedom". It must be limited so that all may have any freedom at all.
Food for thought, my friends.
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What is freedom? Is it something that is just "the ability to do as one pleases" or is it "the ability to do as one pleases*" [*-As long as these freedoms do not restrict the freedoms of others]? I think our definition of freedom may be contributing to the misconception that freedom is infinite. Which it can never be. There is a limited form of freedom which is present, or at least was present in America, but nothing that can be described as "true or total freedom". It must be limited so that all may have any freedom at all.
Food for thought, my friends.
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