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Originally Posted by outlaw
As soon as you start determining "consequences" for what is otherwise free speech, then you really don't have free speech anymore. Your list of non-approved speech seems to be endless. GB passed a law making it a crime to utter any speech that offends someone. I think a man was arrested in Chicago or NYC, maybe GB, for saying a policeman's horse looked gay, another arrested for "barking" at a police dog. When are we going to do something about mean stares and looks? Or a mean spirited disapproving head shake?
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Again we agree. I mean free speech is likely to offend someone. The real danger is stifling free speech
the old saw "sticks and stones.... applies no longer but what would one expect from people who actually take selfies
finally with the right to free speech is the corresponding responsibility to oneself in a civil manner