Speech May Not Be Free, but It's Refundable

Joseph Ashwood ashwood at msn.com
Tue Dec 18 19:35:35 PST 2001



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Choate" <ravage at ssz.com>
To: <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: CDR: Re: Speech May Not Be Free, but It's Refundable

> You have a right to do whatever you want, UNTIL it impacts another. Then
> you stop, or they defend themselves.

Actually that's not true. Take for example the nearly nationwide ban on
committing suicide. This clearly only impacts a single person directly, and
is by it's very act clearly consensual. But it has even been proposed that
attempted suicide should be tried as attempted murder 1. Oddly enough this
would in some areas make attempted suicide punishable by death. There are
other examples of similar, but not as ludicrous, legal situations where the
only person being impacted is the person acting, but it's still illegal.
                            Joe





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