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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 distribute morning-after pills
• gore porn in museums

Comments

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

(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.livejournal.com]

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.

[pijsan.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's amazing. Make sure you get yourself a good nickname. |>

Oh, that sounds familiar, actually. o,o Did the protests happen to be from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church? Or am I thinking of something else? 6A9

Yeah, it is depressing though. And if you ask me, there's a time and place for free speech and funerals are not one of them, but...Sob it is a hard issue to argue. ;;

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

...Actually I think it was from there. I gotta double check, but that sounds right to me. :3

It really isn't, and the general community thinks so...but if the law gets involved, then it could lead the whole first amendment thing down a slippery slope, to quote my teacher.

Really, I just think it's sad that we're considering needing laws to enforce general cordiality.