The Act of Speech Deserve No Special Treatment

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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
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.

Again, expressing ideas is not about NOT offending people.  Frankly I find your views on free speech a bit offensive as they put peoples' opinions about what they want to hear before the liberties of other people.  Still you are free to say them and I am free to scoff and tell you that you are wrong.

And I would say a church is precisely the place I would want to go if I was looking for theist that I wanted to debate.  I am sure I would be asked to leave at some point, at which point, I would.

First there is a huge difference between public speech that people find offensive and targeted individual verbal attacks on a child.  Total strawman argument.  There are such things are verbal battery.  That is not covered by free speech.

The difference is some hillbilly asshole can stand on the street corner shouting "send all the balcks back to Africa, they are ruining the country" and you can walk by, ignoring him.

If the same person goes up to a black child and starts verbally beraiting them, then that is an individual attack on a person.

One is acceptable and one is not.  I hope you can see the difference.