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Originally posted by sixate
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This stupid fucking bitch needs to keep her over-paid, by hard working over-patriotic American's, mouth fucking shut! Fuck her. [/B]
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Sixate:
A question: If one of the things that America stands for is freedom - particularily freedom of speech - and you are a patriot who loves your country (which I do not doubt), how do you square this with telling a critic to shut up?
I'll grant that Paltrow is dumb. I'll grant that she might even be flat-out wrong. Why does that result in a call to silence?
Keep in mind that John Stuart Mill says in On Liberty that even offensive speech can serve freedom by exposing its own fallacies.