Bruke's English Journal

‘I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for noun.’

Lee indicates that, the majority, of the rest of Maycomb aren’t as morally strong as Atticus to do the unpleasant jobs in Maycomb, such as defending a black man’s word against a white man’s. She is also implying that the rest of Maycomb is blind to the .injustice of racism in the county’ that ‘some men’ can see the injustice and evil. These ‘some men’ are the people that do something about it, while some jut think about doing it or don’t even do it. ‘We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.’

‘ We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.’ Said miss Maudie.

Lee make Maudie’s view of Maycomb shown in this quote. Maudie thinks that Maycomb is an isolated town, where not a lot happens. Things that challenge you as a person, difficulties that change people. Maycomb supplies a nice smooth ride through life, most of the time. But when something that challenges morals comes Atticus is there to deal with it.

Can we truly have free speech?Will free speech only exist in a society without censorship?Is there an unsolvable conflict between free speech and offence?

I think that we have the right to be offended

Free speech.

There will always be that group or individual that will appose someone’s opinion because they disagree or have a different point of view. But isn’t the point of freedom of expression to have different views be laid on the table and discussed. Offence. To be offended is, usually, a natural instinct in humans to point out that an opinion or expression is ‘libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, hate speech, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation,trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, right to privacy, right to be forgotten, public security, public order, public nuisance, campaign finance reform or oppression.’ to protect themselves or others. These are the limitations set by governments.

Why have ‘free speech’ if it has the power to destroy our lives.  Where would you draw the line if you don’t have the right to be offended. This is a sensitive topic because you could pretty much be offended by the simplest of things, however to be offended and not like something that has come up is the very first step to changing it. If Rosa Parks wasn’t offended that she had to stand up from her seat for a white man to sit segregation would be fine because you take no offence to something that you believe is wrong.

Everything must have limitations and free speech isn’t an exception. If it doesn’t improve the world in any way why bring it up, but on the other hand who is to decide what is best for the world?

I feel that free speech and offence are more linked than perceived. offence is an uncontrollable emotion, like all the others. Emotion and feelings are what drive us to do anything, primitive or civilized. Until we can fully control our emotions, which will be never humans aren’t completely ready for ‘free speech’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

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