Free Speech and the Right to Be Offensive

Submitted by Sofa Sogood (United States), Jun 5, 2008 at 22:02

This is not the EU. Nor is it Canada or Saudi Arabia.

Here, you may debate a wrong impression, wrong interpretation, but, as of today, we still have the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech. Although this freedom does NOT include the right to use speech to incite violence, in other words, one may NOT say, Let's all beat up so and so tomorrow, or let's deface a synogogue, or bomb a church. There are, as yet, no anti-blasphemy laws in the U.S. though people are free to dislike anyone for what they say, or dislike their words.

Freedom of Speech, however, includes the right to choose whether or not to offend or to be offensive!

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3360

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