Just Found: A New Constitutional Right

Add abortion to the list.

Abortion is included with the right to privacy since that's how it was justified by the court.

-tsc

...as soon as I hit "Post".

A few years ago I tried an experiment. I loudly said the "n-word" over and over in rapid succession, perhaps seven times. And then I noticed a few things. The sky hadn't fallen. The world hadn't come to an end.

Of course, not everyone would have like hearing my little experiment, but who cares? People say things all the time that offend me. That's their right, and it's my right to avoid them if I don't like what they say. For anyone who may not understand this concept, it's called "freedom of speech."

The fact that we have to use a term like "the n-word" when posting is testimony to the pervasiveness of the very mentality that imagines some right not to be offended. If there's a politically correct kind of prudishness, I suppose this exemplifies it.

..on the premise of offending people, just as it was built on the cash crops of tobacco and hemp.