I am surprised at the amount of support
these Paris Journos are getting; these world leaders, who in their own countries
have used all the wrong means to suppress free speech, marching up, giving
statements supporting freedom of speech; then that huge rally yesterday and
then all the footage on TV, amazing! All this for a bunch of guys whose parents
didn’t teach them how to respect others sensibilities.
See, my wife allows me to write whatever
crap I want to about her on my blogpost, but would she appreciate me writing
something very belittling and demeaning about her even if it was true, just because
I have the freedom of expression? My foot she will! From the next day onwards,
I would be sleeping with stray cats in the backyard.
My best friends allow me to share adult
jokes with their wives, even a little bit of flirting is tolerated, but could I
go ahead and make an indecent proposal just because we are adults and we all appreciate
and propagate freedom of speech? That would be pure catastrophic, do not even
imagine the consequences of it!
So, how long can anyone or I tolerate someone
who thinks otherwise? How long can anyone tolerate someone who has taken up on
annoying others under the garb of free speech?
For instance, how long can anyone
tolerate that annoying fly buzzing around ones ear, making that eerie sound? You
can either, draw your blanket over your head and let it go by its job and hope it
finds another customer, or you can cover your ear with a plug and let it
explore some other open hole, like your nose or open mouth or someplace else.
Whatever you choose to, you will soon realize that a fly crawling on your body
is more annoying than one buzzing around your ear, and at one point of time, I
am sure you will pick up a newspaper roll and whack it flat.
Freedom of speech cannot be absolute. It
has to be used cautiously, and with restraint, or else, like Newton once said,
every action will have an equal and opposite reaction, and the strength of the reaction will not be based on what you perceived to have conveyed, but on the basis of how your free speech was received.
Everyone will retaliate in their own
way:
Most people will mumble, grumble
and go to sleep, some will get angry and debate, some will write a blog or post
a tweet, some will break a furniture or two, someone will instigate people to
react, someone who has a strong fist and is in close proximity, will land a punch that
breaks your nose, someone who is aggravated and has an axe might even chop your
hands off, someone else who has gone wrong in the head and has a gun in his
pocket will pull the trigger at you……. then don’t complain.
