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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] The purpose of free speech is that the government cannot decide that it doesn't like what someone is saying, so they jail them or execute them or whatever on no grounds other that what they've said. And this is fine. However, as DT has so eloquently pointed out, this doesn't stop other people from doing what they will to you because they don't agree w/ you. He thinks it's perfectly fine to jack the guy in a bar for what he said. How is that so different than firing him, or suspending him, as the case may be? We all have the right to free speech (I'm talking about the US here, of course, since that's the country in question). This means that, even if the government doesn't agree w/ us, they still treat us as citizens, just like everyone else. However, if a private citizen hires you to do work for him, and you start spouting off stuff that he doesn't like, there's nothing stopping him from throwing you right out on your ass. In fact, he has infinitely more right to do that than DT has to sock you across a barstool. There's a huge difference between "Constitutional freedom of speech" and "no matter what I say, everyone has to act like they agree w/ me". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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