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[northwind_gale]

Honors College Seminar 202-Ethics and Public Policy

Class #1, dated Thursday, January 28, 2010, from the hours of 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Topics of Discussion

• people getting fired from leaving their guns in the car while working
• the extents people will go in America to protect free speech
• universities being forbidden to prescribe, advertise, and

Comments

[yuidirnt]

people getting fired from leaving their guns in the car while working
What the hell? Does stuff like this REALLY happen?

[northwind_gale]

[yuidirnt]

Awesome! Your class sounds really really interesting!
But just thinking of the fact that in the USA everyone has the right to bear arms creeps the hell out of me.

[northwind_gale]

It is. We have to think a lot. :3

Well, considering that the original Constitution was written after that whole mess with the British and after a war and such, it would be natural that the right to bear arms would be there to keep soldiers from randomly running into your house and stealing all your guns (and other possessions, but you really need the gun to defend yourself, obviously) as they used to do in the days before and during the Revolutionary War. :3

[deceitroyalty]

Dude, can I hang out at your class ;;

[northwind_gale]

well it's already a crowded little room...but we can fit in one more! :D

[pijsan]

Gore porn in museums? You mean like guro, or whatever it's called? O,o;

Also lolfree speech. I just read a bit of a book about free speech on the internet, and how some thirteen year old kid got awards and stuff for defending his right to have a joke site about the eradication of chihuahuas, what. 6A9

But yeah your class sounds pretty awesome~. :D

[northwind_gale]

Actually it was this museum that decided to have an exhibit about the human body that involved people getting to view a live surgery. They had already restricted the age limit and stuff-but others protested that there would be some that came to watch the surgery just to be entertained by the blood and stuff like in horror movies (thus, one of the students called it "gore porn," seeing as apparently this person thinks that people would come just to get off on it).

Well, the free speech issue we read was a lot more disconcerting, unfortunately. Probably the only one we couldn't really come to a consensus to.

but yeah, it's awesome. :D

[pijsan]

(thus, one of the students called it "gore porn," seeing as apparently this person thinks that people would come just to get off on it).

What, in public? 6s9 Also ohsnap now we have to ban the Discovery Health channel! D8 No but seriously that sounds like a tough one, although I personally doubt live surgery would attract horror movie enthusiasts because well, it has blood and guts and stuff but without the violence. o,o

Also what free speech issue was it? oso

[northwind_gale]

I think by the end of the semester, everyone in the class will have nicknames. So far we have Mr. Gun Freak and Mr. Porn. *amused forever*

It was kind of depressing. It was a huge thing a few years ago-these people were gathering outside a church while there was a funeral for soldiers-and they were using protests such as "God hates fags" and the like, both by using signs and actually approaching funeral attendees and telling such things to their faces. Obviously cruel, no one would condone it, and such and such. But, through the work of a family's worth of skilled lawyers, this case was elevated from a small issue in church to being held up against the Senate-could the church actually prevent and regulate such things? Doing so was an obvious blow against the first amendment, and it could seriously open the door to even more restrictive rulings.