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>I think people who regularly get rape threats and racial abuse, many of whom are calling for such legislation ( recently there have been numerous cases with bl
by Levitz 5y ago
>I think people who regularly get rape threats and racial abuse, many of whom are calling for such legislation ( recently there have been numerous cases with black footballers and also some with female journalists), have a slightly higher priority than people who just want to insult freely without fear of consequences.
They don't have higher priority than the rest of society, which enjoy an important lack of authoritarianism in this regard. It's not about wanting to insult freely, but about the right to offend.
- sofixa 5y ago> A person's freedom ends where another man's freedom begins I don't know why you think your freedom to offend/insult is higher than another person's freedom to not be offended/insulted.
- chrismcb 5y agoNo one has a freedom to not be offended. It they did, then it would be impossible to have free speech. As there is no way to know if your speech won't offend everyone.
- sokoloff 5y agoI think inherent in the right to speak is the possibility to say things which risk some other person experiencing (or claiming) offense. Perhaps I claim to be genuinely offended/insulted by speech in the form of a haiku. You can’t prove that my claimed offense/insult is not genuine, yet it would be ridiculous to ban such speech or prosecute it. I think there is therefore a necessary middle ground of speech which is legal but for which someone claims it offends them. If it offends some people, see xkcd 1357. https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/
- kofejnik 5y agoI was deeply hurt and insulted by your comment, please delete it immediately and stop posting on the internets!