<p>To all those who state that we should leave other people’s opinions alone:
There is a problem with this country when we value respecting others’ opinions more than we value critically examining them to discern whether or not they have any place in society. Opinions are fine and dandy, but when they encroach upon someone else’s life, they are no longer merely ‘opinions’; they are crimes.</p>
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<p>I thought the first amendment made it pretty clear that the right of other people to have opinions is always higher than any “icky” feeling you may have about it. I may hate the fact that I have to walk behind someone who’s smoking, that doesn’t give me the right to ban smoking.</p>
<p>I dunno. I feel icky because you mentioned feeling icky. </p>
<p>Freedom of opinion is certainly a human right, but I don’t recall it being mentioned in the Constitution.</p>
<p>^ haha, maybe I feel icky at your… ‘ickyness’. </p>
<p>And I should have been more clear; freedom to express one’s opinion is certainly more valued (via 1st amendment) than “examining them to discern whether or not they have any place in society”.</p>
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<p>And the only reason it “encroaches” on your life, chickenfight, is because you are intolerant.</p>
<p>I’m with Smallz on this one. Though I don’t recall where in the 1st A it says that there is freedom of opinion.</p>