On this reasoning, if Jonathan Swift were still among us, we should be so lucky, and some moron were to kill and eat a baby, crediting "A Modest Proposal" as his inspiration, Swift might be subject to prosecution. Don't laugh: this is actually the conclusion drawn by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the "Hit Man" case. Their idea, and yours, is that speech is dangerous, and if it inspires misconduct by fools and wicked people, the speech--and not the fools or the wicked--ought to suppressed. God Bless you, and welcome to the land ogf the free.
--jks
> >
> > > > Bonsaikitten.com is, of course, a joke devised by prankster MIT
> > > > students
> >
> > Carl Remick:
> > > *MIT* students, of course! Har, har, what wags. If ever there was an
> > > argument for using the neutron bomb, the MIT campus is it.
> >
>
>Scuse me if I mosey in here. I was goin around boards after seeing this
>posted here and the consensus online is that this guy should have the right
>to keep that site up, and I agree. It's well within his freedom of speech.
>
>However I truly hope that if just one person duped into believing it is
>legit and kills a cat, citing the website as inspiration, that the federal
>government prosecutes the website developer to the full extent of the law
>for animal cruelty and he recieves the maximum jail term.
>
>Right to free speech is like the right to own a gun. If you point and use
>that gun, you better be ready to accept the ramifications of your actions.
>Why is it that our society (or perhaps just the Internet culture) believes
>the first ammendment gives people the right to say anything and be held
>harmless for any ramifications caused by such? Perhaps this is just a
>symptom of the greater problem, that our society has slowly come to accept
>lack of responsibility and accountability.
>
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