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To: ichabod_65

Not necessarily. If the recipient of the message did not intend to receive it but the message arrived, such message can be suppressed by the law without violating anyone's right.

Such is the situation with censorship. It does not ipso facto violate rights, although, of course, just as a cop might at times violate rights when preventing a theft, so may an censor at times violate rights while preventing a blasphemy.


157 posted on 02/02/2006 2:27:48 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex

Not necessarily. If the recipient of the message did not intend to receive it but the message arrived, such message can be suppressed by the law without violating anyone's right.

But we're not talking about a private message(ie..e-mail, letter), we're talking about the distribution of a newspaper with cartoons that someone finds offensive.

Such is the situation with censorship. It does not ipso facto violate rights, although, of course, just as a cop might at times violate rights when preventing a theft, so may an censor at times violate rights while preventing a blasphemy


The fact of the matter is, France is secular and as such the idea of blasphemy is foreign. And while were on the subject, why are you outraged by cartoons about muhammed?



159 posted on 02/02/2006 2:47:15 PM PST by ichabod_65
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