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> Every citizen is free to express his opinion. you are, but if you commit a crime in doing it you go to trial. which is fair. edit: libel is a crime punisha
by peoplefromibiza 3y ago
> Every citizen is free to express his opinion.
you are, but if you commit a crime in doing it you go to trial.
which is fair.
edit: libel is a crime punishable by the law, everywhere in the west. Doesn't mean you are forbidden to say what you want.
democracy without a justice system as a counter power is not democracy as we intend them in modern era.
- concordDance 3y ago> Doesn't mean you are forbidden to say what you want. This confuses me. Saying someone is "free to do X" normally means that X is allowed by law. Or else what could it possibly mean?
- try_the_bass 3y agoI don't see "free to do X" being exclusively "it's allowed by law". One is always free to do whatever one wants. Criminal law exists to punish those who abuse that freedom in ways their society has deemed to be harmful. That is to say "free to do X (under the law)" is a subset of "free to do X".
- concordDance 3y agoWhat does "free to do X" mean then? That you are physically able to do so?
- peoplefromibiza 3y agoit simply means that you are free to do it, but not overdo it because there are rules. it's the basis of every modern society. many things allowed by the law are not really "free". police forces are allowed to use weapons, that doesn't mean they can shoot randomly whenever they feel like it.