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Old 11-01-2015, 09:49 AM #14
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Originally Posted by Livia View Post
I wholeheartedly believe in freedom of speech, so long as it is within the law.
So if the law was changed tomorrow and made free speech a thing of the past, you would "support" the tiny piece (or zero?) free speech left?

That's not really any sort of "freedom" of any kind, is it Livia...

I would agree if you were just saying "within reason", i.e. Not crossing an obvious moral line, but bringing something so vague and changeable as "the law" into it negates any hint of autonomy. "Of course you are free, you're free to do absolutely anything that Bob says you're allowed to do."
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