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Forum: Polls
Thread (Discussion): Poll 1028 - Should the government be able to punish someone for their thoughts?
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Message 151950 (In Reply to Message 151942)
Posted by orolan
on May 18, 2005 08:42 PM | Also by orolan
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
State: N/A,
Country: United States |
The government can already punish you for speech. Consider the old standby test. You go to the theatre and halfway through the second act you yell out "FIRE". Such an act is not protected by free speech.
Consider this though. You're sitting in your living room. You think "You know, I ought to go to the theatre and yell 'FIRE' in the middle of the second act."
Should that be illegal?
Should it be 'less legal' if you happened to already have been convicted of doing such a thing? Or perhaps it's an OK thought, but if you did it before the government will ban you from theatres on the assumption that since you did it once, your only reason for going to a theatre is to do it again?
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Message 151942
NO!
Posted by mysticfyre
on May 18, 2005 06:19 PM | Also by mysticfyre
| Gender: Female,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: Florida,
Country: United States |
Thread
121949, admin, Nov 19, 2003 04:30 PM [Introduction]
151942, mysticfyre, May 18, 2005 06:19 PM [NO!]
151950, orolan, May 18, 2005 08:42 PM
152005, innermostfrustrated, May 19, 2005 04:20 PM
152033, orolan, May 19, 2005 10:50 PM
152039, innermostfrustrated, May 20, 2005 12:56 AM
155730, kiwi, Jul 11, 2005 02:01 AM
155608, Silverthorne, Jul 09, 2005 09:58 PM
155957, Teft, Jul 13, 2005 01:58 AM
156132, PVulcan, Jul 14, 2005 09:49 AM
156407, Silverthorne, Jul 17, 2005 12:47 AM
156098, Scaye, Jul 14, 2005 02:58 AM
156444, mawmaw, Jul 17, 2005 07:17 AM
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