Feedom of Speech...

Lately I've been analyzing what is exactly the meaning of that phrase "Freedoom of Speech".

I know it's written in the Constitution, I know we have the right to say what we want without fear or restraint...but lately the whole concept has me confused.

I think that you should say anything that you want as long you don't disrespect or offend others; even so you still have the right to say anything you feel like... that's the whole point!

Whether your words offends others is a morality rather than "legal" or "righfulness" matter.

So here's my point:

It seems that for anything that you say nowdays there's always someone or some Institution or some group or some whatever that is going to be offended. Not only will they feel offended but they will demand an appology for you saying what you have the constitunional right to say.

Morality is a tricky issue when it comes to freedom of speech.

Everything is been taken out of contest and blown out of proportion.

Beware if you dare to say a joke about white donkeys! Out of nowhere some groups defending the albinos ( no disrespect intended) will take a connotation and expect you to apologize to the albinos for the white donkey's jokes that "clearly" was intended to be offensive towards them...

UH?

To my humble point of view there is no freedom of speech when you have to check every single line of what you are going to say in public. And there is no freedom of speech when, suddenly, a simple joke is blown up and you find yourself taking the heat for it.

I think we all need to lighten up a little and make an effort to be less critical about simple things.

The easiest way to deal with that kind of situations is, first of all, check the attitude and intentions of how the words were said and take if from there.

We all need to laugh at ourselves a bit more.

Now, may I ask:

Do you REALLY think that "Mr. Man's" intentions on Leno ( thursday 19 ) was to make fun of the Special Olympics or it was just to make a joke of himself being so bad at bowling?

Chill, relax it's just a joke!

We are not longer able to say " ...the black man that lives across the street painted his house bright yellow..." Inmediately the attention will go to "the black man" quote and we'll forget about the fact that he painted his house in a bright color... or even to say " ...Oh! That's so gay..." could make you regret you ever got a tongue in your mouth.

I don't know ( I might be wrong on it) but all this rights to everything and every advocate of every single issue has made society way too much sensible.

So what's the point of the First Amendment then?

I feel that the so called "Freedom of Speech" is only in paper and reality is far from that.

T/69