Thursday, January 27, 2011

An important caution

We read:
"It seems with respect to freedom those who find themselves in positions of power (among others) seem unable or unwilling to grasp the most fundamental tenet of freedom, namely, that in order to be free you must allow those around you to be free as well. Any limit placed on the freedom of one individual becomes a prison not only for the intended victim but for the proposer of such limitation. As the sphere of acceptable discourse becomes narrower and narrower, the likelihood of civil debate diminishes, replaced by other, less genteel, forms of communication."

Source

Free speech is to an extent a safety valve and repressing it could push the censored person to resort to violence.

3 comments:

We The People said...

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” --- Thomas Jefferson

The American people are starting to realize, too late perhaps, what Jefferson meant.

Anonymous said...

As a gun lover, I like the concept, We The People.

However,

The gun-hating Liberals are becoming too well entrenched in positions of power thanks to the current POTUS.

That worries me.

Anonymous said...

Unless you live under a totalitarian regime. Then there are those with privilege and those without. Seems to becoming more popular these days in developing countries along with some supposedly devloped countries of slavic or latin persuasion.