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But, you know, in Europe, we have a different freedom of speech I would say Europeans in general have a different understanding of freedom. In the US the conce
by Vik1ng 12y ago
But, you know, in Europe, we have a different freedom of speech
I would say Europeans in general have a different understanding of freedom. In the US the concept is usually always you have "the freedom to..." whereas in Europe there is often something more like "the freedom from...". Yes, I realize that you can pretty much write every freedom so it becomes the other, but when you actually think about it and not try to nit pick that's pretty accurate.
In general I feel like in Europe there is not this holy grail of abolute freedom like in the US. It's often limited by personal rights, privacy etc. Americans don't seem to understand that this isn't just the EU on some kind of acid trip, but that Europeans simly have different values.
- jacquesm 12y agoI'd like to see a European country that tries to censor where its citizens can go, where money determines the outcome of elections and that's not an actual democracy go out and preach to other countries about how 'free speech' is more important and therefore its citizens are more free than those of other countries around it. Freedom is an absolute in theory only, just about every country in the world loses out on one or more dimensions of it but somehow the US has the general idea that it and it alone is somehow the bastion of freedom.