sl_carmichael ([info]sl_carmichael) wrote,
@ 2007-09-25 10:05:00
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Current mood:I'm going to hell

Real life free speech vs web free speech
Time for one of my "I’ve been surfing too much on the web and now hate the entire planet earth" rants. Yes, Myc hates these. *EG*

It has come to my attention that the misuse of the words free speech has seriously gotten out of hand. Oh yes, you are entitled to your own damn thoughts. This is true.

However free speech is NOT walking up to strangers on the street and verbally abusing them. Since when did free speech become a license for that? I see it rampant on the web, and apparently this mentality is leaking into real life. Thus making life even worse than it already is.

Free speech is indeed a good thing, until complete assholes use it as an excuse to say whatever they want, wherever they want. Please get it through your head. Yes, you have free speech, no free speech doesn't include accosting strangers on the street and yelling your opinions at them.

What one can get away with on the web, generally doesn't fly in real life.

You can keep your gays are going to hell theories, blacks are inferiors, jews run the world thoughts in your head. You can also get away with talking about it with your buddies, and probably at a protest as well. But you do not walk up to complete strangers on the street just for the hell of it and indulge in your thoughts. These peoples’ mamas definitely didn’t raise them right. Just because you can get away with it on the web, doesn’t mean you’ll get away with it in real life.

Oh, and for those think I‘m going to hell because of the way I live my life and my own beliefs:

#1. I already live in hell since I have to share space with you.

Or #2. If I have to share space in heaven with you, I’ll hang with Lucifer. He’s fucking hot!! K?

Take your choice.




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[info]sl_carmichael
2007-09-25 04:16 pm UTC (link)
You know I really don't get it. I'm starting to think people are taking their online behavior into real life. More so than has been apparent in society until now.

My mom did NOT raise me to be that way. This belief that we can actually walk up to a complete stranger and say whatever the hell we feel like. That is not free speech. And ppl are trying to disguise it by saying free speech gives me the right to say whatever I want. It's starting to piss me off.

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