05-31-2019, 11:54 AM
(05-30-2019, 07:05 PM)Louisabell Wrote: Unity100, I think you are confusing people who exercise their own freedom of speech with people who believe in freedom of speech as a universal principle (i.e. everyone's freedom of speech).
Yes nazis shout that they have a right to their marches because "free speech", but are they proponents of freedom of speech for all? Considering some of them don't even believe in the right to life for all, it's obvious they aren't for it. In this way they are hypocrites, enjoying freedoms that they would not give to others, making their ideology one that will eventually self-implode, as it has in the past.
I make that distinction.
However, the problem is that, even in cases where free speech as such is protected due to universal principles, allowing the negative movements to spread and organize, it ends up with ending of free speech.
It has ended like that in every country which faced this situation in middle east. Nazis themselves came to power through elections, and they gained their initial following via free speech...
This is a matter of practicality since its a contradiction:
Will you allow the movements which will eventually end free speech to gain power through free speech. Will you limit their free speech.
Its a paradox.