clean-up of a nuclear reactor that's melting down...

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Concentrating...

Sorry for the late reply. :O

I don't think people have a right to absolute freedom. There's an example from John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty", where it's argued that some agitating against corn dealers couldn't do so in front of an angry mob, next to a corn dealer, because the risk to the corn dealer's life and liberty is to great. Mill expressed the view that the anti-corn dealer sentiment would be acceptable in text, but that's old media of course.

Newer forms of media can invite more rapid, more poorly thought out responses, and I think the example of the 'wog and leb bashing day' SMS broadcast by Alan Jones is an example of this. Even if the broadcast of this information didn't lead to a single Cronulla bashing, I think the scenario is similar enough to the 'mob next to the corn dealer' scenario to say that Alan Jones did not have the right to freely express this message on radio.

It's a bit of a fuzzy line, and it varies from context to context, but there is a point beyond which people are not free to express racist views.

An example of racism on the 'allowed free speech' side of the line I'd guess could be the silly racist ideas of Satoshi Kanazawa. There is at least time for reflection and response whenever 'the great idiot of social science' opens his mouth, or publishes something stupid - the same degree of freedom of expression I recognize for Kanazawa's detractors, like PZ Myers and many others.

Then there's the cases of personal racism. When someone singles out an individual on account of their race, and makes their race an issue, I take issue with this. It's not so much the expression of a kook theory, as it is a personal attack/harassment/abuse (of power).

I don't think this kind of conduct in the case of journalists, would allow for 'freedom of expression' as a defense against a news outlet deciding to sack someone.

Hope that clarifies my position. ;-)

Not really my area of expertise, or interest. Am aware that regression hypnotherapy is bollocks.

That gravity continues to remain universal, and they don't just fall upward into space.

No.

9:57pm in Adelaide, SA.

Considering that medicine presupposes physics, I suspect that there already is an explanation; hallucinations, frontal lobe epilepsy and so on.

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I opt for chemical reaction on this one.

Lemmy.

No thanks. :D

A few. Favourite one is from when I cut my finger open with a tomahawk.

Vege burgers. That's what I'm about to make anyway.

The dishes.