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You americans get way to hung up on this freedom of speech thing, it's not some all trumping right that overrides everything else. Libel laws for example, limi
by discodave 15y ago
You americans get way to hung up on this freedom of speech thing, it's not some all trumping right that overrides everything else.
Libel laws for example, limit our free speech. Another definition of rights is set out in the UDHR, article 5 states:
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The case can be made that promoting eating disorders and other forms of self harm is a cruel and degrading way to treat your fellow humans. Even if the perpetrator believes themselves to be acting in everybody's best interests.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoSo we should hire you to help us censor all of our user content that you deem "cruel"? Is it cruel to find a gay kid's tumblr and tell him to kill himself? What if I simply say gay teen should kill themselves? How about that they're sinners and are going to hell? What about simply saying that I think marriage is between one man and one woman? Where does untasteful become cruel enough to ban?
- pjscott 15y agoPlease don't try to inject nationalism into the discussion. At the very least, it's rhetorically rude. (I know this isn't a reply to your actual argument, but I don't have the authority to delete epistemically dangerous posts, so I figured posting this was more appropriate than trying to get myself set up as a censor. :-) ) (Also, is there a commonly agreed-upon way of putting a :-) emoticon at the end of a parenthesized region? The apparent paren mismatch bothers me.)