It is fundamental that we as Americans believe that we are entitled to the freedom of speech. Certainly as well, we are not entitled to freedom from reproach in words for our exercising of our speech. If we uphold a value in conscience, compassion, decency, dignity, empathy and education as derivitive of and essential for liberty, then our allowance of the freedom of speech is a true challenge to be upheld in the face of those whose speech is, by design or carelessness, an affront to this said value. As of late, I have critiqued others on their speech. I discipline my natural, initial thoughts towards chastising these speakers because I am aware, within my own conviction, that the speaker is a vessel. If good and evil exist, they are carried within our being. Our being is defined by our actions, our actions are so derived from our thoughts. To assault the vessel with terse and shallow rebuttal is self-gratifying in the short term, but only spurs on spite by spite, devaluation by devaluation, evil by evil. The thinker is the vessel, the idea is what is held there within. For the sake of our own freedom, its liberties, and our values foundational to them and essentially endowed by them, we must not address the speaker, that thinker, as the root of our confrontation, but rather we must address that which gives rise to that speech in which we are in such opposition to: the idea. For the great leap to be made, and address to be brought to fruition, we must find the courage not to succumb to the means of evil in our struggle to combat it.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:53:00 +0000
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