Thread:Comments:Internet security firm to donate revenue to charity after Anonymous protest of Westboro Baptist Church/Does no one see that WBC is the good guy in this story?/reply (6)

Hello again, Pi zero!

>> overestimating the role of SCOTUS in interpreting the US constitution

How can one overstate absolute power? We can argue about what the law SHOULD BE, but the Supreme Court exclusively decides what it IS.

>> You oughtn't allow your notion of right and wrong to be dictated by someone's interpretation of legal documents

Two separate questions: Is WBC's speech method legal? Is it morally right? Note that I am talking about the speech method, not the viewpoint expressed.

>> just as you oughtn't allow your notion of right and wrong to be dictated by someone's interpretation of religious documents

Now we're switching to consideration of the viewpoint. I propose that we keep the two considerations separate, and on this thread, focus on the speech method employed by WBC. They aren't saying anything new. They are just saying it in a novel, high nuisance, way. What should the community's response be when a speaker uses a high nuisance, yet legal, method?

The attack on WBC is motivated by a dislike for, and a desire to silence, their viewpoint. All of this business about nuisance is just being used as a smoke screen to conceal what is really going on: violent intolerance of a speaker with an unpopular viewpoint.