Hypocritical because giving free speech to people who despise free speech is just that.
So, in over words, it's hypocritical because it is?
Hypocrisy is professing to hold one set of beliefs while behaving in a manner contrary to those. So it would be hypocritical for someone to claim to believe in free speech while denying it to others; or for a Nazi to claim not to believe in free speech but allow it. However, I don't see how it's hypocritical for someone to claim to believe in free speech and stand by that even when people are using their freedom to talk bollocks.
Pretty much everyone under the age of 25 only deals with litres, metres and kilograms. The only exception is vehicle speed, which is still measured in mph (and hence all our road signs are in mph). You won't, however, catch any British Engineers or scientists using Imperial units.
As a Brit under the age of 35 I deal with pints on a regular basis.
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So, in over words, it's hypocritical because it is?
Hypocrisy is professing to hold one set of beliefs while behaving in a manner contrary to those. So it would be hypocritical for someone to claim to believe in free speech while denying it to others; or for a Nazi to claim not to believe in free speech but allow it. However, I don't see how it's hypocritical for someone to claim to believe in free speech and stand by that even when people are using their freedom to talk bollocks.
Yeah, free speech is nice, but at the same time providing free speech to child pornographers and Nazis is both hypocritical and wrong.
Wrong arguably, but how is it hypocritical?
Not neccessarily abnormally small, but definatly insecure.
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Pretty much everyone under the age of 25 only deals with litres, metres and kilograms. The only exception is vehicle speed, which is still measured in mph (and hence all our road signs are in mph). You won't, however, catch any British Engineers or scientists using Imperial units.
As a Brit under the age of 35 I deal with pints on a regular basis.
Isn't this exactly what phone boxes are for?
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