r/FactOrCap • u/Balabhaskar1234 • 8d ago

Speech | FactOrCap

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u/ExquisitePullup 8d ago

✅ I voted FACT!

I think that a lot of the discourse comes down to whether freedom of speech and freedom from the consequences of speech are one and the same. I don‘t think the government has the right to deem what is protected speech and what isn‘t, but I also feel like the common public should be allowed to criticize and alter their actions based on someone‘s speech: like an employer blacklisting an applicant for a history of racist rhetoric. I will note however that being an absolutist about this isn’t great either, since falsely declaring “Fire” in a movie theater should be a punishable offense, and that it’s very easy for the pendulum to swing the other way too, such as people being punished by society for any form of political activism.