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Originally Posted by CU Tiger
Once you grant the governing body the authority to control what is "good" speech and what is "bad" speech (and Im using speech generically. It could be written, spoken, worn...whatever) then you have no freedom at all.
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Do you believe that Germany has no freedom at all? Hell, do you believe that Canada or the UK have no freedom at all? I don't think the later two go as far as Germany, but I also think they are more strict than the US in terms of hate speech (I believe in that case - of hate speech, it's under 'incitement', which is also a limitation in US jurisprudence, but the line is drawn in a different place).
Is freedom simply that binary to you rather than a sliding scale? Wouldn't you think it was absurd if someone said if you aren't given freedom from hunger (a more specific "Freedom From Want" from FDR's Four Freedoms) than you have no freedom at all?