100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Yes, I suppose that's true. But if you can do something with consequences attached, then you aren't really free to do that thing.

But everything has consequences, and exercising freedoms should have some responsibilities attached for what some of those consequences might be - fire getting out of control and gutting the school building for example.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

But everything has consequences, and exercising freedoms should have some responsibilities attached for what some of those consequences might be - fire getting out of control and gutting the school building for example.

You can hold a protest and burn whatever flags you want without consequences if you aren't on school property, so I would consider that a freedom. I would not consider breaking and entering a freedom, because you'll be thrown in jail. I think it's more semantics than anything else.