Just wanted to reply to these two posts, and will leave after this:
(Sorry to all about bringing this back up and going offtopic, but I didn't want to open a new thread just for these replies or to bring them up in another thread)
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I'm sorry, but with freedom of speech comes with responsability. Words can hurt and if you use your freedom of speech to hurt others, lie, be a generally shitty towards anyone who thinks differently, you should and can be called for abusing that freedom of speech.
Freedom of any kind (speech or behavior) doesn't comes with free pass on hurting others.
Freedom of speech means just that: Freedom of speech, of any kind and at any time/for any reason(with a scant few exceptions like threats/etc). If there's a limit imposed it's not true free speech but in fact censored speech.
Also sorry to say it(and this will seem rude), but everyone else's feelings are not anyone else's problem, and we shouldn't have to protect people from hurt feelings. People are adults and need to learn to handle their emotions and responses and we shouldn't have to limit the speech of others to accomadate them.
(And speaking of hurt feelings....what about all those who call people r*cist/b*got/etc.....what about those who get their feelings hurt through being called such? Where is their freedom from having their feelings hurt?)
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OK, is jail for murder breach of general human freedom if censorship is breach of freedom of speech? Responsabily using words that don't hurt others can't be censorship, you can say all in polite manner. We in Croatia (and Europe) have laws against insults, slander and verbal hate against minorities.... what's that? Censorship if you can't slander others?
Censorship and oppression under the banner of tolerance is what that is.
Also m*rder and such are jail-able offenses because they physically harm people or worse, which is way worse than having to deal with some "bad" words.
And no one cannot even say some ideas in a polite manner in some countries as they get locked up or fined regardless.
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