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To: jospehm20

The DUTY to exercise rights in a responsible manner was not addressed in your reply.

Like, for example, free speech as addressed in the First Amendment. Anyone is always free to say just about anything they may want to, but this in no way relieves them of the RESPONSIBILITY for the consequences of that freedom of speech.

Shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater may well lead to consequences that vastly compound the effects of the presence of that fire, even if one actually exists.

Freedom without responsibility is a curse.


75 posted on 02/17/2018 10:59:10 AM PST by alloysteel (Coming in dead-stick, high, hot and blind, with the glide angle of a brick. What a rush.....)
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To: alloysteel

Nobody gets to require anything of me to exercise my rights. I can be responsible without anybody’s approval. I don’t care what you or anybody else thinks of that. BTW, the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” thing is pretty irrelevant. You might want to look into the history behind it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/


81 posted on 02/17/2018 11:32:15 AM PST by jospehm20
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