(12-16-2022, 06:15 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: ETA: I was looking at some old photo's of inside the house I grew up in and noted on a bookshelf was one of those books called "The Yellow Pages"...that image later dawned on me there was once a time where they’d send a big yellow book to everyone’s house listing yours and everyone else’s assassination coordinates. I think there was even a story/movie or police report called the phone book murders...reminiscent of the first Terminator movie.
I used to get two of those books a year - one, the Yellow Pages, was a listing of businesses, and the other, the White Pages, listed individuals. The Yellow Pages listed the assassination coordinates of businesses, and it was only the White Pages that listed the assassination coordinates of individuals.
In smaller towns, the two were combined and listed everyone's assassination coordinates all in the same volume, citizens first and businesses at the back of the book.
My assassination coordinates were never listed in one. Due to the nature of my life, I took proactive steps to keep would be assassins from locating me via such mundane means - I thought it more proper to make them work their asses off for the info, because that puts hits on the radar, It was usually pretty simple - you just gave the phone company a couple extra bucks not to list your assassination coordinates. A protection racket, I suppose.
To this day, you will not find my assassination coordinates. Even my phone and home address is listed in alternate names, with alternate personal info.
Regarding the freedom of the press, as the Left is so fond of telling the Right, no rights are unrestricted. They are not unlimited. As a general rule, your First Amendment Right to free speech - upon which the Freedom of the Press is founded - is restricted such that at the point you place another person in jeopardy, your right to speak freely ends. You can criticize all day long, and bat ideas all over the place, but painting a target on another person is where that ends. In the classic example, one cannot yell "fire!" in a crowded theater. The exercise of your right to swing your fist ends where the nose of another begins, else you run a risk of violating THEIR rights.
Most rights come right along with responsibilities, and are not unrestricted. For example, I have the Second Amendment Right to bear arms, but that does not extend to a right to shoot other folks indiscriminately. There are limits. The problem is, those limits usually involve the exercise of common sense and personal responsibility, and common sense is in such short supply in the modern world that it probably should be classified as a superpower. Personal responsibility is regularly shirked with impunity these days.
The practice of "doxxing", which is what was done to Musk on his own platform, is abject irresponsibility and the complete abandonment of common sense. It is the violation of the rights of another - the right to privacy - by painting a target on their back and declaring open season on them. It's not just bad form, it's abuse of one's own rights to violate the rights of another. MY rights do not trump YOUR rights.
That sort of thing is what puts an end to Rights.
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