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3 pages in length. The writer discusses moral and constitutional implications of a racially charged cartoon that appeared in The New York Post. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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as essential to ones existence as are the life-sustaining elements of food and water. According to a judgment in the 1999 Redmond-Bate v DPP case, Lord Justice Sedley contended
that free speech consists of "not only the inoffensive, but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative, provided that it did not tend to
provoke violence" (Anonymous, 2003). However, there is a moral line drawn between the inherent freedom of speech and what the populace considers inferences of hate, a duality of the
First Amendment being applied to Sean Delonas cartoon. The fact that speech is protected by the First Amendment does not necessarily mean that it is right, proper, or civil
[especially when] any satisfaction it gives [the perpetrators]...is far outweighed by the discomfort it causes to many others (Bok, 2002, pp. 51-52). If so many people interpret Delonas cartoon
to have racial overtones, it is reasonable to believe he has overstepped his bounds where the secondary issue of moral responsibility is concerned. However, as repulsive as such a
display is to so many, there is still a kernel of value by virtue of an ability to inform. John Stuart Mill was able to see harmful speech as
a bridge between issue and resolution by applying the hateful commentary as a social awaken, claiming how people "must allow for the expression of bad ideas -- whether opinions or
alleged statements of fact -- because they may contain some grain of truth that corrects the conventional wisdom or, lacking that, provide a challenge to accepted beliefs, without which those
beliefs in the long run become mere prejudices" (Haiman, 1991). As such, it would be in societys best interest if Delonas would retract his cartoon while both he and
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