Re:Richard Stengel: “Why America needs a hate speech law”
by gnusty_gnurc on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:13PM
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> That’s partly because the intellectual underpinning of the First Amendment was engineered for a simpler era.
There's no engineering here.
The Bill of Rights are meant as enumerated inherent ("god-given") rights.
They're not engineered for anything other than codifying the natural rights of people.
His argument invokes the idea of a "marketplace of idea" and "truth" which essentially reduces natural rights to matters of utility, when they're more of a moral declaration that free people can speak.
There's no engineering here.
The Bill of Rights are meant as enumerated inherent ("god-given") rights.
They're not engineered for anything other than codifying the natural rights of people.
His argument invokes the idea of a "marketplace of idea" and "truth" which essentially reduces natural rights to matters of utility, when they're more of a moral declaration that free people can speak.