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The strength of your principles is only tested at the extremes. I hate Westboro Baptist Church, but I'll support their right to say what they want, because that
by joshfraser 14y ago
The strength of your principles is only tested at the extremes. I hate Westboro Baptist Church, but I'll support their right to say what they want, because that's how much I believe in free speech. And even terrorists deserve the right to a speedy and public trial if they're American. It's part of our constitution, something we're supposed to stand for as a country. It even makes me sad the way we handled the whole Osama Bin Laden assassination. How much of a bigger statement would it have made to the world if we had pulled him out and made him sit trial for his crimes? What happened to our principles that we used to care so much about?
- mc32 14y agoW/re WBC, I think while they have a right to hold views, express them, share them, I do not think, and others have agreed[1], that they have the right to disrupt other people's proceedings (funerals) as part of their right to free expression. [1] http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/16/3870092/appeals-court-delivers-westboro.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/16/3870092/appeals-court-d...
- camus 14y agofreespeech is not about going to someone's funeral and spiting on his grave yelling he is going to HELL.