Free Speech
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:15 am
Nobody can speak of virtue and vice - right and wrong - except within their own inbred philosophy
It has to be wondered if people in this country know what they mean by ‘free speech’. It is nonsense if there are no values attached to the term. This country needs to decide first whether it is an altruist democracy, to speak somewhat loosely. And not an anarchist democracy, let alone tyranny. We may allow speakers to extol an authoritarian state and society, in order to understand the opposition. But if that speaker believes in summary execution for those who criticise religion, or their version of it, then that is exceedingly dangerous. We may undermine democracy by random liberalism. The question is not about right and wrong but about the contradictory kinds of society people espouse. Globalisation is a present danger, except as global cooperative localism. International corporations need to be broken up.
It has to be wondered if people in this country know what they mean by ‘free speech’. It is nonsense if there are no values attached to the term. This country needs to decide first whether it is an altruist democracy, to speak somewhat loosely. And not an anarchist democracy, let alone tyranny. We may allow speakers to extol an authoritarian state and society, in order to understand the opposition. But if that speaker believes in summary execution for those who criticise religion, or their version of it, then that is exceedingly dangerous. We may undermine democracy by random liberalism. The question is not about right and wrong but about the contradictory kinds of society people espouse. Globalisation is a present danger, except as global cooperative localism. International corporations need to be broken up.