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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AC37" data-source="post: 1386056" data-attributes="member: 133">The problem with suppressing 1A rights because some use them unintelligently is for all the problems free expression brings, when free expression and exchange ideas is stopped, sooner or later people are going to start exchanging violence.  Numerous historical examples of this playing out could be cited here.  The 1A for all of its imperfections is a big part of the reason we live, as a country, in much better overall conditions than much of the rest of the world.The beauty of the 1st is just like the WBC is free to protest, others are free to counter-protest WBC in turn, such as the Patriot Guard Riders.A fundamental part of believing in the 1A is accepting that while many will use it for good purposes, others will do not-so-intelligent things with it.  You have to take the good with the bad;  remember that whatever viewpoints you believe correct (religion, sex, etc.), many others believe you're wrong - vehemently so.  IOW;  if you accept suppression of the beliefs you find incorrect, sooner or later you're going to find your own viewpoints being suppressed by those who didn't agree with yours and also thought wrong viewpoints shouldn't be protected by the 1A.  Bottom line:  you can't force wrong people to be right.  You can only find peace in your dealings with them through mutual respect for individual freedom - and maybe in time those others will eventually come to see the error of their ways.</blockquote>

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