Tuesday, November 03, 2015

No right is absolute

From politicalprof on Tumblr

anonymous asked:

"No right is absolute. None." Then you don't have a right to speak your mind. Please delete your blog, it offends me and you're raping me.

Well, actually, I don’t have the unlimited right to say whatever I want to say and expect no hassle or push back from it. I don’t have the right to claim free speech as a defense if I start screaming “run there’s a gun” in a crowded hallway and a panic ensues; I don’t have the right to encourage people to beat up someone standing just in front of us because I want to. Or, put a different way, I can’t claim that I should not be prosecuted for inciting violence on the grounds that I was just exercising my free speech rights.

So, umm, no: no right is absolute. Not free speech. Not gun owning.

Unfortunately, stupidity seems in endless supply.

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