Fecking LJ comment system. Note to self; write it all in notepad first in future. Bah.
I hadn't any strong thoughts on this ("live and let live" and all that malarky) until I discussed this with a friend and the distinction between this led to the implications of the word "entitled" as a legal phrase.
The issue being the difference between common and Napoleonic (I think it's that) law; the former lists what you are ~not~ allowed to do and the latter lists what you ~are~ allowed to do. In stating you are "entitled" to something it implies that unless you are specifically allowed to do it - you can't; whereas with common law everything is fair game unless it's been outlawed.
I'm all for hearing opinions of people, but if said opinion is libelous or incorrect (Remember PI == 3? ah fun...) then you may be able to believe in it, think it, but express it and you could be in a whole heap of trouble.
Brain cogs going...
I hadn't any strong thoughts on this ("live and let live" and all that malarky) until I discussed this with a friend and the distinction between this led to the implications of the word "entitled" as a legal phrase.
The issue being the difference between common and Napoleonic (I think it's that) law; the former lists what you are ~not~ allowed to do and the latter lists what you ~are~ allowed to do. In stating you are "entitled" to something it implies that unless you are specifically allowed to do it - you can't; whereas with common law everything is fair game unless it's been outlawed.
I'm all for hearing opinions of people, but if said opinion is libelous or incorrect (Remember PI == 3? ah fun...) then you may be able to believe in it, think it, but express it and you could be in a whole heap of trouble.
Plus it's a bit of a cop out.
Mind you I'm still mulling this one over!