Newsgroups: can.politics
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!db.toronto.edu!jdd
From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: tobacco advertising ban
Message-ID: <1988Mar1.175539.23134@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <5929@utcsri.UUCP> <1803@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2615@dciem.UUCP> <272@mult.UUCP>
Distribution: can
Date: Tue, 1-Mar-88 17:55:38 EST

In article <272@mult.UUCP> sean@mult.UUCP (Quadratron system) writes:
>In article <2615@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
>>
>>As for freedom of speech--it can never be absolute, and where you
>>draw the line is always going to be a difficult problem of balancing
>>the interests of individuals, state, and special-interest groups.
>
>WHAT A CROCK!!!
  ...
>Our free society should permit ANYONE to say ANYTHING ANYWHERE at ANY TIME.
>If you want to try to sell an idea to the society at large, it is the
>responsibility and right of that population to listen or not.  Government
>has no place legislating morality.

Thank God you're not our government. Then any moral offence (including
murder, rape, assult, theft) would be legal, because "government has
no place legislating morality"!

Regarding freedom of speech - if anyone could say anything anywhere at any time,
then we'd have anarchy. Have you ever been libelled? Have you ever been the
target of hate literature? Have you ever been the object of cruel gossip?
Have you ever received an obscene letter or phone call? If such things were
acceptable, could you imagine the chaos and anger produced?

No society allows any of its members that kind of freedom, otherwise it would
disintegrate. 

John
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