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What does free speech mean outside of the context of law? You don't have free speech in my house, your free speech doesn't mean I have to broadcast it. That doe
by fra 9y ago
What does free speech mean outside of the context of law? You don't have free speech in my house, your free speech doesn't mean I have to broadcast it. That doesn't mean I'm violating some ethical concept.
- jshevek 9y agoThe moral principle of free speech existed before any supporting law existed, otherwise the law couldn't have been created. I respect your legal and moral property rights, but I might think someone is a bad person for censoring speech within their own house (for example, a Christian household in which a curious skeptic teen is denied access to secular literature). You and I can disagree with the importance or applicability of any ethical principle, it doesn't negate the nature of the principle. Recognizing an ethical principle as such (don't harm animals) doesn't require we adhere to all of it's possible consequences (eating vegan, maybe).
- bkmartin 9y agoFree speech is not a "moral principal". Who deemed it such? With what authority was your idea of free speech deemed a "moral principal"? There is a reason why free speech is in the constitution... and it has everything to do with the "government", whatever form that may be, and their handling of their citizens. It says nothing of how the private citizens handle such speech within their own liberty and private spaces.