Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Freedom of Speech and Abusing the Right

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.