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From an outsider's perspective, simply riffing out loud, you're free to say (and draw) whatever you like. That's not inherently forbidden, but one is NOT free t
by EliRivers 7y ago
From an outsider's perspective, simply riffing out loud, you're free to say (and draw) whatever you like. That's not inherently forbidden, but one is NOT free to deliberately cause distress or harm; you don't get a free ride just because your weapon of choice is words (or pictures).
I'm free to hold a hammer in my hand; I have freedom-of-hammer-holding. I'm not free to threaten someone with it; my freedom-of-hammer-holding does not give me a free ride if that hammer becomes my weapon of choice.
The problem isn't with the hammer, or me holding it; it's with me deliberately causing distress and harm. The problem isn't me saying something; the problem is with me deliberately causing distress and harm.
Why should someone get a waiver when deliberately hurting people for their own pleasure, simply because the weapon of choice is words or pictures?
A hand-drawn picture posted on your website would probably be more akin to self-harm in this particular example; I'm just riffing out loud on the idea that it's okay to hurt people for your own pleasure so long as the weapon is words (or pictures).
- justforyou 7y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, but: This feels like slippery slope territory to me, especially in the current age of faux outrage. Look at what's happened to the political cartoon sans legal prohibition. Alsp the hammer example is a lot easier to justify because hammers aren't speech, and physical injury is objectively verifiable.