The Act of Speech Deserve No Special Treatment

[kanageddaamen]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

kanageddaamen said:

No it is not.  People do not have a right not to be offended.  PARTICULARLY based on their beliefs.  beliefs are choices and you have absolutely no right to tell people they can't say what they choose because of something YOU choose.

 

For example, it used to be offensive to say there is no god.  Should I be arrested for doing so, just because religious people get offended?

Like I have said, it depends on your intentions. If you yell those words inside a church on a funeral, you can't possibly have had any good intentions unless you were forced by someone (in which case the intention would be to save yourself from harm), which is foolish to assume.

Again, not true.  What if I view religion as poisonous and damaging to society so I go to churches to and try to convince people to become atheists.  People are still going to be offended, and depending on the society, the government not view my intentions as good and throw me in jail simply because I offended some people.

What I don't understand is this mentality that people deserve to be protected by the government from getting their feelings hurt, or hearing something they don't want to hear.

The unlimited and unregulated exchange of ideas, no matter how offensive you may find those ideas, is the only way to run a free society.