Free to Speak, Not Free to Harm. Endorsing Violence Kills the Safety and Trust that Hold our Society and our Country Together.
What is the point of your beliefs if they lead you to hate so much that you CHEER death? Please find something else to believe.
The First Amendment protects FREE SPEECH, but it does not extend to incitement of violence, libel, defamation, harassment, or similar speech that intends to cause REAL physical, mental, or financial harm.
This is different from speech that OFFENDS someone’s beliefs, which is an UNAVOIDABLE consequence of living in a large society where people earnestly hold different views.
There cannot be a right to not be offended because that would NOT allow a society of FREE INDIVIDUALS to coexist. Pushing for cancel culture to prevent people from speaking freely so that no one is offended requires COERCION, which means people are not fundamentally free to be themselves.
The best way to react to speech that offends you, or that you do not like, is to IGNORE it. Do not attend events of speakers who disagree with you, change the channel so you don’t hear them, don’t bother reading the writings of those who think differently. Another option, if you want to be intellectually challenged, if you want to grow as a person, and/or if you want to understand the other side is to engage in DEBATE, like Charlie Kirk did.
But it is not morally or ethically right, nor is it practical, to try to silence speech that offends or that you disagree with because that would require FORCE. You don’t have the right to make others do things against their WILL. And you certainly don’t have the right to HARM them.
Cheering, promoting, rejoicing in the assassination of someone like Charlie Kirk, who shared his beliefs and ideas with others and engaged in debate with anyone who disagreed with him, is CONDONING VIOLENCE.
If such ghoulish people are in power politically, in the government, in leadership positions in schools, in healthcare professions, in any position where they serve or interact with the public, they need to be removed from their positions because people who justify violence for those they disagree with clearly pose a DANGER to them and it ENCOURAGES more violence, which harms us all.
The point of FREE SPEECH is to allow PEACEFUL coexistence with those we disagree. Condoning violence breaks our society; it breaks a fundamental principle that is necessary for a civilized nation.
If you are made HAPPY that someone was brutally killed, you should seek help to find your HUMANITY and learn to value others, for life is a true miracle.
What is the point of your beliefs if they lead you to hate so much that you CHEER death?
Please find something else to believe.
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From Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, 09/15/2025 on X:
"Americans should debate policy without smearing opponents as “Nazis” or “fascists.”
A free society derives upon vigorous debate without personal hatred. Charlie [Kirk] modeled that, and his example should be followed."
From engineer and novelist Frank J. Fleming, 09/11/2025 on X:
"The point of the left labeling speech as violence was always to justify violence against speech."