Text 817, 29 rader
Skriven 2009-10-26 16:18:19 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
    Kommentar till text 771 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Australia - a pioneer...
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 BF>> Try standing on a soapbox, arguing against the existence of the
 BF>> Holocaust and you'll soon be aware of what he's talking about.

 RB> You're straining yourself again, Bjorn. Try preaching in favor of child
 RB> molestation in Sweden and presumably you'll get similar reactions.

   Surely you are not seriously comparing child molestation with hoax
believing? Are you?

   And preaching in favour of something vs. expressing doubts about something
is the same thing? I thought you were better versed in the English language
than that, considering how patronizing you are whenever our (us non-native
speaking European's) take on the language is discussed.

 RB> Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a famous Supreme Court justice, once remarked
 RB> that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a
 RB> man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic". You and
 RB> others should really consider that in your remarks.

   Sigh! That old "fire in a *theatre* (as I think is the proper spelling, if
you don't mind my saying so)" argument once again? Comparing causing a,
possibly fatal, stampede versus freedom of speech?

   It's so bad that I thought every concerned citizen would realize that they
are as completely opposed to each other as ever child molesters and hoax
believers can ever be.

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