"I do not agree with what you are saying, but I can sacrifice my life for your freedom of expression," said Walter, a well-known French thinker. Today is the age of social media, each of us is freely expressing our opinion but we do not know the difference between expression and humiliation nor do we know the legal aspect that freedom of expression and What are the limits of humiliation.
Freedom of expression means that every human being is free in speech and writing and can form his or her own particular point of view on any thought, idea, action or system, supporting any thought or idea or action. K has the right to promote it or to correct it or deviate from it by criticizing it. Freedom of speech is a basic human right which has a positive effect on the society and this right helps in solving many problems by cultivating consciousness. Introduces new chapters of research. When a variety of opinions derived from collective consciousness meet, they are in the collective interest. The basis for accepting dissent is the recognition that people have different perspectives and their interpretations of any concept may be different, this is the beauty and charisma of society.
"Freedom of expression" means that anyone is allowed to express their views openly, question, disagree and positively criticize for reform, but only by humiliating and degrading others and slandering others. No one is allowed to harm it. Criticism is justified in freedom of expression, but it is imperative that humiliation begins where criticism ends, and humiliation is considered a bad thing in every society. Many people cross all boundaries while criticizing. We consider it a freedom of opinion to tarnish one's honor, to insult someone, to point a finger at one's religion, creed and sect, and one's respectable personality; They consider it their right to humiliate intellectuals or institutions, even though it is a blatant violation of the moral right to freedom of expression and their degrading consciousness.
No society gives freedom of expression that hurts the feelings of others. Each society has set its own boundaries of expression according to its own circumstances. The German thinker Emmanuel Kant provided a rule for limiting liberties, saying: "I am free to move my hand, but where your nose begins, my hand's freedom ends." س
According to New Zealand's Bros., balancing the process of providing freedom of expression is the most difficult thing. He says:
Q: If you don't control yourself to a reasonable extent, people can certainly get hurt and if you give too much freedom, you can harm society. You can harm people. On the other hand, if there are many restrictions, the public will not have the required information. This part of the law has unimaginable difficulties where this balance can be reached. There are many contradictions in this regard. There are so many important interests involved, it is obviously impossible to reach the right balance to make the essence one happy.
Albert Einstein writes: “Every creation is truly great and evokes enthusiasm if the creator strives freely in creative practice.
And then, according to a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 (ICCPR), any speech or writing that is religious, national or any other person or group living in a country must If it causes racial opposition or hurt and expresses hatred or contempt against them, then it is the duty of this country to stop it and legislate against it, while in many European countries there are many restrictions on freedom of expression.
Full freedom has been given to double human happiness. Freedom of expression is intended to promote goodwill. To protect the interests of the society through dialogue and consultation and to prevent the violation of human values. Freedom of expression is aimed at promoting human dignity individually and collectively and rejecting all issues that undermine human values. It is to cultivate goodness in society and to build a wall against denial, obscenity and lying and evil. There is a difference between criticism and humiliation and this difference must be maintained. Objection, enmity and hatred are not the same so they should not be combined in any way. Opinion, character assassination, slander are very different from each other. Criticism is a catastrophe if there is no difference between them.
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