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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: truedog who wrote (1897)9/12/1999 8:51:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 6418
 
Restrictions on any right begin at the point where the exercise of that right infringes on the rights of others. You are quite entitled to write that I am an idiot, but if you scream it inches from my face, or follow me down the streets shouting it, you have exceeded the limits of your right to free speech and I can petition for redress with a good chance of success.

Somewhere between writing your message in an SI post and screaming it in my face, you encounter a limit to your rights, set at the point where my rights to be free of harassment begin. Setting these limits is the job of the court system.

If the case involves the intrusion of one person's rights upon anothers, the person being intruded upon is frequently given the benefit of any grey areas, since we are a people who value our privacy. There is a distinction between political speech and personal harassment.

You have a right to speak against abortion. Women have the right to avail of a legal medical procedure without personal harassment. Interpreting where the line between those rights lies is the job of the courts.

You may not like the current interpretation. But I'm sure that there are many others who would not much care for the interpretation you favor.
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