martes, 2 de julio de 2019

La libertad de expresión de Australia detrás de un caso

Los dichos de Israel Folau y el motivo de la causa que sigue toda una Nación: https://www.instagram.com/p/BwEWt2uHcLI/

"Do we want less homophobia and fewer homophobes?

If we honestly answer in the affirmative, we must maximise the likelihood of homophobes encountering the best remedy for their beliefs: the spotlight. My positions on liberty, free expression and secularism are mutually-sustained, though arrived at from different sources. I follow Descartes’ natural scepticism and Hume’s dictum on evidence to conclude that as we cannot know anything other than the fact of our own existence beyond all doubt, we must proportion our beliefs to the evidence. I follow Mill’s natural next step in holding that we should thus all be free to pursue what lives we wish so long as we do not infringe the pursuits of others in their own, and I am with Rawls in considering a just society to be one in which the caprice of one’s nature should not dictate the degree to which their rights are infringed by the state or other individuals.

I also recognise that the only society which can ensure these positions is a secular one, where people are free to manifest their religion however they wish, so long as in doing so they do not infringe the rights of others. An expression of an opinion infringes the rights of nobody, and we should be very careful about endorsing the policies of both states and private organisations whose decisions have far-reaching and retarding consequences. We need more speech, not less".

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