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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: news.misc,rec.humor.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: Expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks
Message-ID: <487@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 17 Mar 89 18:09:49 GMT
References: <439@corpane.UUCP> <3100@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9773@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Mar16.165623.20831@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Mar16.165623.20831@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >>... while freedom of speech is an important right, freedom
> >>from fear and discrimination is also a basic right...
> 
> Freedom of speech means nothing if it's only the freedom to speak "clean",
> "pure" words, where somebody else defines what is clean and pure.  It has
> to include the right to be obnoxious and offensive.

A recent "Shoe" comic strip put this very nicely, to paraphrase:

	"To guarantee freedom of speech, we must be willing to
		accept dumbness of speech."

The comic strip presented it much better, but you get the drift.

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Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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