Originally Posted by
Expat
Originally Posted by
HaveLucidDreamz
people should have the right to express emotion over what they want without a miserable man writing about it,
What does that mean? They should have the right to prevent Hitchens (or anyone like him) from writing what he thinks, so that their emotional expression should not be disturbed? Is that what you're saying?
Did I say Hitchens was a miserable man ?? look I am talking in general here, because many people on this post are all, "oh no, this is awful people shouldn't be acting like this". Hitchens can write what he wants, but just the same people should be able to express what they want, works both ways, they should respect each others difference in opinion.
Now your misinterpretting my statement, its not about the issue of free speech, its saying its not other people's right to determine what is emotionally ok and not ok, its not the writing thats annoying, its his critique of how people should act thats annoying, he should have the right of free speech, but ideally it would nice to see him be a little less critiquing of something so arbitrary, even then you can say, I am a hypocrit for saying how he should act, when I am saying he shouldn't tell people how they should act. But the point is of this wasn't a logical theory on the proper actions of society, I am not theorizing law here, I am saying people should learn that not everyone feels the same about things, and its not really someone rights to say someone is feeling the "wrong" thing. Do you disagree, do you believe their is an objective way of experiencing feeling? Argue on that point because its intuitively obvious this is the point I am addressing.