kanageddaamen said:
| IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
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.
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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.
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If you think that religion is poisonous and damaging to society, a church would be the least appropriate place to express those views if you don't want to offend anyone and want to be taken seriously.
"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."
Really? If some parents keep insulting their kids and hurt their feeling in several non-physical ways you don't think the government should step in because they never actually hit him/her? Mental harm is not only acquired through physical violence, which is why the kid deserve protection from physical- as well as non-physical abuse.
