Freedom to Speak

With all the controversy that is going on at the moment it got me thinking about free speech.

If there are restrictions placed upon one's freedom to speak who decides what they are? And how do we know that is right?

If freedom to speech is a human right, things that some people will say are going to offend us. But just because it offends us, is it right to take away their right to express it?

Complicated...

And I'm not entirely sure what I think, persuasive arguments can swing me either way.

Anarchy, Capitalism, Communism and my Desk

So I was sitting here at my desk quietly getting about my day job when a colleague popped round to say hello. As is their want it's never a simple "Hello, how are you?", first it was a discussion as to how rubbish we all thought life was. Elizabeth is partly to blame here because she has a "Life Is Crap" calendar, which was a gift from Sue, so she is also culpable! Then it was a discussion on various merits to anarchy, communism and capitalism. All around my desk!

It got me thinking though about the world we live in, about order and chaos, about authority and freedom. About what works and what doesn't work.

And because I'm at work I don't have time to write much more, which is a shame...