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I'm a mother of 2 boys who are 13 months apart. Talk about a handful. I'm a wife to the best husband I could have ever dreamed of.
I'm one of the very blessed.


I have Bipolar 1 Disorder. I hate taking all these medications and always going to doctors appointments, but life is too short to let mental illness get the better of me.


Often times life is a challenge, and nobody knows that better than me. I wake up wondering if this is going to be a day my illness overpowers my meds, and either sends me flying like a bat out of hell, or leaves me laying on the couch like a wet dish rag.


Thank all that is good in the world that I have an excellent support system at home.
I'm one of the lucky ones.


I'm honest, and that can either be a perk or s flaw. Depends on how you choose to look at it.
I like to see it as a perk, because it's better to hear the truth than to be told candy coated bullshit.






advice

Freedom of speech is very important and should not be limited, assuming it doesn't offend or hurt others.

How is this relevant/acceptable to today? For example, people in countries without freedom of speech like America have to go through ridiculous things when they do try to speak up or change things. Any specific examples (American, preferably), or anything along those lines..?

I have to write an essay for a scholarship contest about that concept, but I can't think of anything especially moving/that will get me noticed..

Thanks.

I don't have much to say other than you are kind of mixed up, here.

I have the right to say whatever I want, outside of shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theater. That act of stupidity gets people hurt, perhaps even trampled to death. I do NOT have the right to cause such panic.

You say that freedom of speech is important, and you are very right, because it is extremely important. But you contradict yourself by saying "...[Freedom of speech]should not be limited, assuming it doesn't offend or hurt others."

You say it shouldn't be limited, yet you are willing to put limits on it at the same time? When prepared to limit and/or strip the rights of others, you must be prepared to limit and/or strip your own rights as well.

It matters not if what I say hurts someones feelings or offends them, because everything hurts/offends somebody. Does that mean my right is the freedom to shut the hell up?
I think not.

Did I offend you?
Did I offend the person who gave you this idea that freedom of speech is important as long as what's being said is what others agree with? So sorry, but that's not the way it works.
See, I have the right to say what I want.
You have the right to not like what I say.

I hope I taught you something important. Then I can say I at least made some sort of difference today.


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(Rating: 2) Sure, you taught me that freedom of speech is important, but you didn't help at all. Sorry. I paraphrased a quote by Benjamin Franklin, but probably left out/simplified too many words. The only thing I left out, really, was that that should be the only check on this right. And I used the words "hurt/offend" rather than infringe on the rights of others. My bad. I'm not stupid, I just worded my question the wrong way; I understand how our system works. I don't think you needed to be so confrontational in your answer, but whatever. Good example of freedom of speech, I guess.
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