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Free speech and threats.

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TWhite Posted: Tue, Oct 20 2009 5:43 AM

"All of group A should be killed." (Free speech)

"I'm going to kill person B" (?)

So my question is this: Does the right to free speech allow you to say anything, in any circumstance, or are direct threats not allowed?

Holding a gun to someone's head and threatening to shoot them is wrong, but is there a clear line where on one side you're exercising your rights and on the other you're breaching somebody else rights?

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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.—Karl Kraus.

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AJ replied on Tue, Oct 20 2009 10:02 AM

Let the (non-monopoly) courts decide.

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If all property were private property, there'd be no debates about "free speech," because it would be up to the property owners to determine who can be there and say what.

Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. But logic is the only tool available to man for the comprehension of both.Ludwig von Mises

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