I wrote a thing about the right to choose not being the same as the rightness of choice. https://conatusnews.com/red-flags-fallacies-3/ … This is the same principle. You may have the right to do or say something but this doesn't require everyone else to think what you do & say is right.
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'I have the right to say that' does not answer the question 'What justification do you have for saying that?' You can always say 'I don't owe you a justification,' of course but we need to recognise that having the right to do something doesn't justify it ethically.
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I see this most with freedom of speech. People say 'Freedom of speech is about the *government* not having the right to interfere with speech' to justify censorship, banning, deplatforming and obstructive protests which prevent speech that other people want to hear from happening
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But, in reality, 'It's not actually illegal' is not an ethical justification for anything. Very many unethical things are legal. The government only punishes disloyalty in the form of treason. This wouldn't make cheating on my husband or betraying a friend's confidence acceptable
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