Mr Data gets it…
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I don't see your problem with this simple statement. Sure, someone has the right to speak. But I don't have an obligation to listen. NONE of us have an obligation to listen to anyone. What is it that you don't get about this? It's not complicated. Just because some blowhard issues a "Manifesto" or starts Tweeting out stuff, does NOT mean that he has an absolute right to be heard... by ANYONE.
If someone were ranting in the streets about invisible men or the CIA or whatever people rant in the streets about these days, are you obligated to stand there and listen to him? If you DO feel obligated to do so, I feel sorry for you. But if you quickly identify him as a fruitcake, I suspect you would just quickly walk on by and ignore him.
So while he is exercising his absolute right to speak, he can expect absolutely zero right to be heard. Not all assertions or speech is equal.
It's really a simple concept; I'm surprised you don't get it.
I understand the statement. But I’m just making a point that she legit said that. You have freedom of speech not freedom of reach.
It’s an observation not an attack.
Ah... point taken.
I'm kind of surprised at people misinterpreting this, as well. Maybe if it was expressed as:
Exactly. It's not rocket science. If people are not REQUIRED to listen to someone, then that person has no "right" to be heard. Hitler and Castro had a "right to be heard" as it was enforced by armed men. No one in America... yet... has a right to be heard. We listen to people who make sense, who have something new, profound, or interesting to say, but we do that willingly. None of those people, no matter how articulate or brilliant, have a right to be heard, any more than Ford making cars does not have a right to make us buy them. We listen to smart people because we WANT to, not because they have some "right" to be heard. They only have a right to speak...everything following that is based on the actual rights of others, to listen or ignore.