I believe that the promotion of truth is a responsibility far outweighing any fanciful right to promote falsehood.
In my youth, I was much more passionate about free speech (FS) though never an absolutist. I was more tolerant of the "accidental falsehood" than I am now, but that is entirely over. I now believe that deliberate falsehood su…
I believe that the promotion of truth is a responsibility far outweighing any fanciful right to promote falsehood.
In my youth, I was much more passionate about free speech (FS) though never an absolutist. I was more tolerant of the "accidental falsehood" than I am now, but that is entirely over. I now believe that deliberate falsehood such as Trump commits every day deserves prison time and in cases where it inevitably leads to murder, to execution. I think the infanticide-as-abortion falsehood merits Nevada Gas. It doesn't happen and to say it does is so certain to incite murderous passion that the lie deserves extreme punishment.
The FS phrase has been separated from its origin, which was to allow criticism of powerful people and of government without arrest and a charge of sedition. That's all it meant. It was not protection for incitement nor deliberate commercial or political falsehood.
The idea that it protected murderous irresponsibility like inciting people to trample each other to death is unworthy of discussion.
I want the right to criticize political positions without awakening to cops around my bed. But I also want people who say that immigrants are stealing pets to stand trial and spend years in jail.
I believe that the promotion of truth is a responsibility far outweighing any fanciful right to promote falsehood.
In my youth, I was much more passionate about free speech (FS) though never an absolutist. I was more tolerant of the "accidental falsehood" than I am now, but that is entirely over. I now believe that deliberate falsehood such as Trump commits every day deserves prison time and in cases where it inevitably leads to murder, to execution. I think the infanticide-as-abortion falsehood merits Nevada Gas. It doesn't happen and to say it does is so certain to incite murderous passion that the lie deserves extreme punishment.
The FS phrase has been separated from its origin, which was to allow criticism of powerful people and of government without arrest and a charge of sedition. That's all it meant. It was not protection for incitement nor deliberate commercial or political falsehood.
The idea that it protected murderous irresponsibility like inciting people to trample each other to death is unworthy of discussion.
I want the right to criticize political positions without awakening to cops around my bed. But I also want people who say that immigrants are stealing pets to stand trial and spend years in jail.