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Yes, they should be free to question it, but I think that the US view on freedom of speech makes dumber people because they don't need to think about the conseq

Yes, they should be free to question it, but I think that the US view on freedom of speech makes dumber people because they don't need to think about the consequences of their speech. They usually say whatever they want, usually surrounded with a "it's my right" without thinking about the whole process. Once they said whatever they said, what's next? What's the purpose of their message? Is it to express your anger in life and that you think that the source is some random ethnicity or community or do you want to improve everyone's quality of life? With the recent shift towards extreme individualism, the philosophy behind the essence of freedom of speech has disappeared. Some are now focusing towards improving one individual's quality of life at the expense of the others. In Europe, they FAFO the extense of free speech and that led to WWII. They said never again because they understood the consequences of full freedom of speech. Even in the US, nobody has a full freedom of speech. How would a parent react if their kid would say "fuck off" to an elementary school teacher?

notepad0x90 1y ago
Even in the US freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. quite the opposite. I'm sure in Nazi times in europe, being critical of the Nazis wasn't allowed speech. Both then and now in the US, nazis prosper because we didn't use free speech to fend them off enough, we were complacent. You can see trump trying to retaliate by firing people, banning journalists, cancelling contracts, etc.. for anyone critical of his administration. speech is how fascists gain power, but opposing speech across europe (look at UK and France) is also how they just recently fended of right-wing fascists. In a democracy, the government gets its power from the people. if it can silence the people in certain contexts, then in those contexts the people lost their power. When politicians with bad intent take power, they'll use this crack in the system to tear it apart.
- whynotmaybe 1y ago
  That's where I think you're wrong, they won't use a restriction on speech to arrest someone, they will do anything because there won't be consequences. The current US administration is trying to officially get rid of habeas corpus, even though the government has already arrested people without due process. Even when freedom of speech is fully enshrined into law, anyone with bad intent won't care.

notepad0x90 1y ago

Even in the US freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. quite the opposite. I'm sure in Nazi times in europe, being critical of the Nazis wasn't allowed speech. Both then and now in the US, nazis prosper because we didn't use free speech to fend them off enough, we were complacent. You can see trump trying to retaliate by firing people, banning journalists, cancelling contracts, etc.. for anyone critical of his administration. speech is how fascists gain power, but opposing speech across europe (look at UK and France) is also how they just recently fended of right-wing fascists. In a democracy, the government gets its power from the people. if it can silence the people in certain contexts, then in those contexts the people lost their power. When politicians with bad intent take power, they'll use this crack in the system to tear it apart.

whynotmaybe 1y ago
That's where I think you're wrong, they won't use a restriction on speech to arrest someone, they will do anything because there won't be consequences. The current US administration is trying to officially get rid of habeas corpus, even though the government has already arrested people without due process. Even when freedom of speech is fully enshrined into law, anyone with bad intent won't care.