A Retraction...
Jun. 1st, 2007 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicaddict...brought about by having received additional (and possibly motivational) opinion.
Having been an avid follower of world news for some twenty years now, and after a series unfortunate events over the past five or six years involving people I know, culminating in The Great LJ Strikethrough of 2007, I had come to the opinion, and voiced it in a public place for the first time last night, that I no longer wholly supported the right to free speech.
I had come to hold this opinion as a result of consistently seeing people I have time for having to sit there and quietly fume, while people I don't are able to wax lyrical about how crap they are and get away with it scot-free, because any attempt to stop them involves censoring free speech.
I held this opinion in error.
After the ensuing discussion that finished in bed around 2am, I realised that I was thinking in a smaller space than such an opinion would ever stay, and that while appplied to certain situations it could be useful there is no way it could ever gain mainstream usage and be a good thing. What could come as a result would be even less acceptable than what we have now.
Therefore, after a relatively brief (on the scale of twenty years newsing) time out in the cold, I no longer disagree with the right to freedom of speech. In the true spirit of the tenet, I don't like it and wish there were a way to avoid it, but have to go along with it.
The alternative is far, far worse
Having been an avid follower of world news for some twenty years now, and after a series unfortunate events over the past five or six years involving people I know, culminating in The Great LJ Strikethrough of 2007, I had come to the opinion, and voiced it in a public place for the first time last night, that I no longer wholly supported the right to free speech.
I had come to hold this opinion as a result of consistently seeing people I have time for having to sit there and quietly fume, while people I don't are able to wax lyrical about how crap they are and get away with it scot-free, because any attempt to stop them involves censoring free speech.
I held this opinion in error.
After the ensuing discussion that finished in bed around 2am, I realised that I was thinking in a smaller space than such an opinion would ever stay, and that while appplied to certain situations it could be useful there is no way it could ever gain mainstream usage and be a good thing. What could come as a result would be even less acceptable than what we have now.
Therefore, after a relatively brief (on the scale of twenty years newsing) time out in the cold, I no longer disagree with the right to freedom of speech. In the true spirit of the tenet, I don't like it and wish there were a way to avoid it, but have to go along with it.
The alternative is far, far worse
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Date: 2007-06-01 08:42 am (UTC)