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To: annalex

And by the way it’s not a liberal interpretation if it conserves tradition. Get it?


318 posted on 01/17/2015 7:41:25 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Courts deal with slippery-slope arguments all the time, and defeat them by establishing clear tests. There are numerous tests, for example, in common law regarding defamation: truth, object of defamation, malice, etc. Likewise there are tests that allow some exaggerations in commercial speech but not others.

The American tradition is that speech generally may be censored. For example, some books by D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller were banned in the US as recently as in the 50’s.


319 posted on 01/18/2015 1:25:41 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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