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Originally Posted by lancsdave
So what you are really saying is that those don't agree with you are a lost cause. That seems to contradict what you say about free speech ?
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They seem like schoolboy fantasists, getting themselves giddily excited about some Orwellian conspiracy theory. That if there isn't total freedom for every single person, there isn't any freedom at all. Which is quite franky ubbish.
To protect the freedom of all we have to have limits on what is, and what isn't, acceptable.
We, along with most western democracies, have laws in place that prevent people spouting hatred, lies, and untruths. Just as a society there are laws we must abide by, so society can function. If everyone had the 'freedom' to do just as they like, we'd have anarchy.
We even have rules that must be obyed on this forum, to ensure it's fairness and decency. Is that an attack on member's freedom to say whatever they want, in whatever inflammatory, offensive, language they think they have the 'right' to use?
We also have laws that curtail free speech, which are the laws of slander, and defamation, and rightly so.
Perhaps the people who advocate total freedoms are really just anarchists.
Then again I might be making too many presumptions. Just as it would be wrong for anyone to presume our pilot friend, Boeing Guy, doesn't have the greatest sense of direction in the world. As some would say was evidenced when he gave directions from Gatwick to Euston station, when he really meant Heathrow.
(Always end on a humerous note. It's all the rage...apparently.)
