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On 21 Apr 1997 15:18:35 GMT, mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu (Michael T Shinn) wrote:

%: Quibbles-but qualified.  Fire in a Crowded theater, let's say "Speech that
%: endangers lives" same as military secrets.  Fraud-OK, criminal activity.
%: Fighting Words, now that's the problem-how do you define them, and why are
they
%: wrong?
%
%Thats the issue, they're a gray area.  I would argue that you deserve what
%you
%get if you insite someone to fight.  I'll have to pull out my law texts
%and re-read the cases concerning the modus of fighting words.  

Well, see, my question is that if I walk up to a randomly selected person and
start screaming epithets in his face, and he decks me-that's fighting words,
right?  BUT if I put those same words on a canvass, or make it part of a
political speech, they appear to be acceptable.  

%: %Serious Literary, Artistic, Political or Scientific value, it doesn't
%: %violation (God what a yarn this one is) local community standards for
%: %decency as spelled out in specific language in the local applicable law.  
%
%: So, is a conspiracy to commit murder of SLAPS value?
%
%Whats the difference betwen a really good murder mystery and conspiracy to
%commit murder - in the eyes of the observer?  (Especially if you're not
%sure...)

Agatha Christie never actually reccomended that people carry through.

John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"The only way a man can be free is by an utter willingness to fight 
with the outright viciousness of one of Larry Niven's Kzin"
                                              -Robert Anson Heinlein