[Dixielandjazz] Disrespect - was Charlie Parker - Now - Differences of Opinion

[Rev M J (Mike) Logsdon]

Mr Gunter said:

> In any case. I unable to come up with a reasonable argument which holds that people are not entitled to disrespect other people.

In the experiment known as America, it is an unfortunate fact that 
"entitlement" and "freedom" are often, and uselessly, confused.

We are, all of us, "free" to love, hate, disrespect, and generally 
disparage anyone we feel like loving, hating, disprecting, and generally 
disparaging.  To be "entitled" means to have the "legal protection" to 
do or receive something.  There is no such "legal protection" in place 
to love, hate, disrespect, or generally disparage.  But we ARE 
"entitled" to the "freedom" to think, feel, and express what we want, 
within legal parameters.  We are, therefore, totally free, via 
entitlement as legal members of a constitutional republic, to 
disprespect who we want to and when we please to.

Memories of my Philosophy minor do well up....!,
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Rev M J "Mike" Logsdon, Deacon
http://www.naorc.org