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To: little jeremiah
(1) You may remember a case that involved that question, but you'll search long and hard before you can find any SCOTUS ruling that says physically torturing animals is free speech.

(2) You are again wrong about the Founders. The works of Thomas Paine were inarguably blasphemous by every 18th century standard. And Titus Andronicus was inarguably obscene - yet was printed at Philadelphia in 1795 even as it was being bowdlerized in its home country.

(3) They shouldn't ban it, because they should value liberty over despotism. They should recognize that all human beings have inalienable rights.

There is also the practical difficulty of allowing governments to devide what can or cannot be said and what does or does not constitute something as amorphous as "blasphemy" and "obscenity."

(4) Why do you strain so hard against the facts to defend the Founders (from something they were right about) when you clearly deplore the Declaration they risked their lives for?

34 posted on 02/16/2014 5:51:05 PM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Have fun discussing with your mind.

I bow out and will leave you with your thoughts.

The SCOTUS did issue a ruling that women in high heels stomping on small animals on Youtube is protected “speech”.


37 posted on 02/16/2014 6:05:23 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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