The right to free expression does not extend to having as your sole purpose the right to set out to deliberately offend. If that is your rationale, can you explain how this this is different to a bully; definition: a person who uses strength or influence to harm or intimidate those who are weaker:(OED)? Satire plays a part in the battle of ideas;. such a battle has a polemic purpose. But the process of the ridiculing of ideas is not to deliberately offend, but to show mainly through the power of humour the weakness in them;, progress only being made when ideas are forced to clash.. Now Im not naive, I accept that some will take offense at the ridiculing of ideas in which they truly believe, but I still consider that there is a clear distinction in ridiculing deliberately to offend and offense being taken because someone with equal rights as you has shown you through satire that something you deeply believe in has flaws.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:32:10 +0000
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