Re: here comes the sun part 4.
[quote=Bululu]Wanted to talk about this subject since the begining but was waiting for some stupid comments to go on for me to react .
[FONT=ARIAL,][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]with freedom comes responsibility ... unfortunately many people seem to want freedom without responsibility .
I have freedom of speech , so I could for example tell someone that I think their mother is a whore ... however I accept that together with that freedom I have the responsibility not to intentionally insult others or cause unnecessary offence ... so I choose not to do so .
Would everyone here be rushing to defend my freedom of speech if I walked up to someone and insulted their mother then complained when I got punched ? or would they say that I should have known better than to deliberately insult someone like that ?
While I am not religious myself I understand that for those who have a religion it is very precious and personal to them .. if someone goes out of their way to insult it under the guise of freedom of speech then they should not be surprised that they encounter hostility ... although that , of course , does not excuse threats of violence .[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[COLOR=black]Excellent article by the veteran BBC correspondent and World News Editor John Simpson:
[/COLOR][URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4685886.stm"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4685886.stm[/COLOR][/URL][/quote]
True say... one of the few intelligent and well explained posts i've seen in this part of the forum. Cheers for that.. :)