[MD] The Moral Landscape

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
What rights are you talking about. The right not to be offended? Is 
that your idea of a right?

[Platt on Oct 5, 2010]
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is being tried for "hate speech." He 
is charged with inciting hatred against Muslims. If convicted he 
faces up to one year in prison.

[Platt on July 9, 2007]
I'm not a free speech scholar but I think there's a restriction on 
speech that incites violence. Flag-burning may come under such a caveat.

[Arlo had asked]
Can you explain the distinction you make between "inciting hatred" 
and "inciting violence"?

Do you make any distinction between protests that burn an American 
flag, and those that burn a Koran?

[Arlo adds]
Are you reversing your position and saying that flag burning, as 
offending as it is to some, is a free speech right that should not be 
taken away?