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Do you think people should have the right to say whatever they like?

Obviously you don't have to give these people a platform, and they don't have to be free of criticism, but do you think people should have the fundamental right to say what they like.

I'm not homophobic for example, but I think people should have the right to say they think being gay is wrong. Rather than being repressed, they should just be ignored.

Am I right?

I don't understand how anyone can be offended by something.

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  • Greg
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Certainly.

    As long as they are willing to deal with the consequences of doing so.

    The words "I'm offended" or "that offends me" are overused and next to meaningless. You could claim to be "offended" because I told you the sky was blue today.... and your taking offense would change absolutely nothing about the fact of the matter. Whenever you hear those words your first response should be something along the lines of ".... okay you're offended. Now what?"

    "I'm offended" is a simple mind's attempt at cutting off conversations they are not personally comfortable with or have nothing intelligent to add to. They can walk away if they don't wish to talk about what is being discussed, but that's no reason not to discuss it.

  • 7 years ago

    You can say any you want but like Greg posted you need to be aware of the consequences. Too many people use Freedom od Speech as an excuse to say whatever they please however when a person speaks just a freely back at them is disagreement they get angry.

  • 7 years ago

    it depends on who you are speaking to.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    it is easy to offend JESUS is offending all the time somewhere on the planet or I should put it this way people are offended by JESUS all the time in various places

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  • fizixx
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I guess you have been sleeping in school.

    In the USA, which is supposedly the only questions I'm supposed to be getting questions from...there is freedom of speech, which guarantees anyone and everyone the right to speak. People have fought and died for this.

    Now all we have are idiots whining and balling about every inane BS topic that comes to mind, because no one ever taught this people that just because you *can* say/do something, doesn't mean you should!

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    NO! People should not talk about killing police police; killing politicians even though many of them should be imprisoned and abusing women, children and animals.

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