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Originally posted by seretogis
You and your daughter do not have the right to not be repulsed.
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The freedom not to be repulsed by offensive and hateful speech is as important as the freedom of speech.
In America, most recently, the whole Kobe rape thing has shown the weakness of the slavish believe that the freedom of speech is everything - the media is allowed to reveal the identity and harass a potential rape victim, all in the name of "free speech"
The freedom of speech should not apply to all - we should not be free to harass by speech or communication, to incite violence, to incite gross prejudice against any ethnic or societal group, or to attempt to influance criminal trials by "free speech"
The freedom of political ideoligy is important, but so is the freedom of ordinary people not to be exposed to offensive material.
A truck showing aborted fetus' is an outrage of public decency, and the person resposnible for it will be prosecuted as such in any decent and civilised society