Dateline Fort Collins, Colorado: The Colorado State University campus there. An editorial ran recently:
"Taser this ... F*** Bush."
The expletive was spelled out.
An article covering it reads: ""I think they went over the line a little bit, but it's free speech and they're allowed to write what they want," one student told 7NEWS."
Yes, because everyone has a right to free speech. I have nothing wrong with free speech or anyone practicing any other rights. But where do those rights end?
Two places:
1. When the practice of that right becomes something that inhibits someone else from living their life or pursuing liberty or happiness.
2. When they abuse that right.
I will stand up any day for any person to practice their rights, but when they violate one of the above I take a step back and take a look at the real character of the person practicing their right.
Moral of the story: Rights are only such because they don't infringe on everyone else or when it is an abuse.
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