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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (60989)	10/4/2002 9:18:28 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

As long as you don't actually exterminate people, or incite other people to do it, you have every right in a free society to hold those views. Of course if you espouse them in public other people will revile you, or may revile you, which is as it should be in a free marketplace of ideas. Freedom means nothing if it does not mean we are free to hold thoughts "repugnant" to others. Think how repugnant the Catholics were to the Protestants, and vice versa. Plenty of Protestants thought Catholics should be exterminated and vice versa. So when this country was founded, our leaders recognized that repugnance is in the eye of the beholder, and that there are many many eyes, some of them vicious. But even the vicious eye has a right to its vicious opinions, as long as it doesn't overstep the generous bounds of free speech.