Sep 15 2008
My Blog Called Stupid! Insipid! Freedom of Speech
We do live in a country with freedom of speech and technically not much can be done when people express their opinion on another’s person’s work.
In a commentary placed on my Blog, my writing was insulted or given some special wording as a right of freedom of expression. I accepted the comment and others who have so liberally expressed an opinion. While many people are respectful of my writing and give nice comments, which I thank them each now for it, I have to give the right to others to say not so nice or respectful comments.
I, sometimes, wonder about the whole meaning of the word freedom, or the phrase, freedom of speech. Just as some people are given the freedom to own a gun, (own the freedom of speech,) we would never want the person to use the gun to harm another person unless it was in defense of one’s own safety.
So, how is it, that we so carelessly go around shooting insulting words willing to harm the sensitivity and well mental being of another person? Is it done in personal defense? Did I, per say, write anything in my Blog that invaded the mental safety of a person to feel the need to shoot me with insulting words?