Well if you think "countless" lives are not at stake, and indeed are not being lost right now, then it says something about the value you place on human life.
And you are being entirely disingenuous in your "hey i am being offensive but i am not killing" line. Words have the power to kill, as you should know from the large number of peer-pressure induced suicides in your own society.
And who are you to tell me what is the prescription for my country, that too in such offensive terms? If you could engage your thought process just a little bit, you would realize that the people in the movie you cited already had a degree of goodwill between them and were willing to listen to each other. Goodwill that you do not want to build as per your statement in your comment in your Livejournal post because you consider yourself morally superior. And as for my comment, I did not say America should sacrifice free speech as such, but know that the consequences of exercise of free speech by individual Americans are felt across the globe, outside America, where people are not Americans, and therefore put the lives of other Americans in danger. In the light of this, it would be a wise choice to be responsible with the exercise of free speech, especially if America doesn't want to be a country where laws detail what the proper mode of expression should be. However, since you don't care much one way or the other about the deaths of people unrelated to you, I don't think there's much point discussing the minutiae of freedom of expression with you.
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Date: 2011-04-05 10:23 am (UTC)And you are being entirely disingenuous in your "hey i am being offensive but i am not killing" line. Words have the power to kill, as you should know from the large number of peer-pressure induced suicides in your own society.
And who are you to tell me what is the prescription for my country, that too in such offensive terms? If you could engage your thought process just a little bit, you would realize that the people in the movie you cited already had a degree of goodwill between them and were willing to listen to each other. Goodwill that you do not want to build as per your statement in your comment in your Livejournal post because you consider yourself morally superior. And as for my comment, I did not say America should sacrifice free speech as such, but know that the consequences of exercise of free speech by individual Americans are felt across the globe, outside America, where people are not Americans, and therefore put the lives of other Americans in danger. In the light of this, it would be a wise choice to be responsible with the exercise of free speech, especially if America doesn't want to be a country where laws detail what the proper mode of expression should be. However, since you don't care much one way or the other about the deaths of people unrelated to you, I don't think there's much point discussing the minutiae of freedom of expression with you.