Comments on: There is NO right to be heard

By: A quick refresher on the right to be heard « Matthew McCullough on Wordpress

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:56:34 +0000

[...] originally wrote this post at the end of last year’s spring [...]

By: fitnessfortheoccasion

fitnessfortheoccasion — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:25:50 +0000

Hmmm. All very good points!

By: Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:08:56 +0000

I suppose that is one way to look at it. But mainly I meant it like this. You have your opinion and person B has an opposing one. Person B can tell you all about opinion B, and maybe you will listen and offer an opposing view. But when person B speaks there is no guarantee that you will listen, and if you choose not to, their argument becomes meaningless.

It also applies to censorship. Everyone wants to keep sex, drugs, and violence off of TV (and Youtube). And networks can take that stuff off the air if they want to, but really its all free speech. Viewers don’t seem to realize that there is no right to be heard, and if thats stuff they don’t want to see (or don’t want their children to see) they can block the channel or turn it off!

By: fitnessfortheoccasion

fitnessfortheoccasion — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:59:32 +0000

This is a very interesting post. I keep coming back to it!
What an intriguing way of looking at speech.

So one must assess whether the cost of letting the opposition even be heard is worth the possible gain of tackling their points…