If your incapable of following the conversation you shouldn't respond. The poster I responded to said you should never be pressured to ignore your freedoms. The situation I described is one where expectation is that you would not exercise your freedom of speech right. So it is comparable.
so good manners pressure you to to keep quiet and the person I was responding to said you should never feel pressured to keep quiet. I never said it was a situation where you can't exercise free speech so perhaps you should take more care to read properly. The person I was responding to said there was no situation where you should feel pressured to not exercise freedom of speech. I am arguing that just because you have the right does not mean you should exercise it. You know just like you said.
Neither do I.
The school should lose this fight. There is no law that makes it compulsory to stand for the pledge of allegiance.
More and more, articles like this and those where teachers seize a child's Bible because they're reading it on their own time, it appears teachers and school officials need an education in matters such as these.
Think of the money they'd save.
Teen suspended after refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance | Fox News
His protest.
teachers demands.
Unless there is something not in this story, the school will lose this fight.
He is making a "silent" protest. It is not disrupting the classroom. Until the school made a federal case out of it, no one had a problem.
The Pledge of alleigence,
What good is a pledge that is mandated? It is meaningless unless spoken freely. Nothing done by threats and coercion is valid. The big brother stepping on the little guy.
I stand for the Red, white and Blue of the past. I do not support the path our country is on. It will take revolutionaries to change the path. But we must ensure everyone's rights are protected. Those we agree with, those we disagree with.
"You have freedom, %$@# it. Now stand up and do what government tells you to do!"
Love that, you have freedom and respect, so do what the government says even if you don't want to.
It's an arbitrary and artificial form of respect. Someone simply invented the ritual of standing up and reciting a pledge while doing a hand gesture. It's just an artificial human custom. It reminds me of the invented custom from my old karate studio that told us never to drop or wash our belts out of respect. Or how the Muslims find it incredibly disrespectful of a woman to not cover her head. Should non-Muslim women be coerced or simply socially pressured to appease others' abstract beliefs by conforming to their rituals? Not if we live in a free society.
