Freedom of Speech (Rights & Responsibilities)

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Freedom of Speech (Rights & Responsibilities)

Should this be taught in schools? How best to do it, as Freedom of Speech is a protected right, but everyone has a responsibility to protect that right so that others have a freedom of speech. Social media encourages division would this help counteract it?

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Reply 1

Genesiss

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do you mean freedom of expression under the human rights act 1998, or wdym?

if that's what you mean, not everyone has the responsibility to protect it.

do you want law taught in schools? or moral obligations?

why would a school teach moral obligations to a legal responsibility one does not have?

maybe explain what you mean in the op?

Reply 2

StriderHort

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Yea do we even have freedom of speed as a protected right? :s-smilie:

I don’t think that the issue is freedom of speech (the lack of/right to it) but more that the freedom of speech is being applied inconsistently.

Moved to educational debate

Original post by StriderHort

Yea do we even have freedom of speed as a protected right? :s-smilie:

Yeah people seem to think that freedom of speech=freedom of consequences and that we have similar levels of freedom of speech to the USA whereby hate/any type of speech seems to indeed fall under freedom of speech unlike here in the UK.

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Kinga88

OP

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Original post by Genesiss

do you mean freedom of expression under the human rights act 1998, or wdym?

if that's what you mean, not everyone has the responsibility to protect it.

do you want law taught in schools? or moral obligations?

why would a school teach moral obligations to a legal responsibility one does not have?

maybe explain what you mean in the op?

Yes, moral obligations should be taught in schools. Universal Declaration of Human Rights could be covered too. I feel that people need to be aware of their Rights and Responsibilities, as at the moment everyone is aware of their Rights, but often fail to recognise or acknowledge that others also have those Rights.

see https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/balancing-rights-and-responsibilities

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