{"id":3947,"date":"2015-02-16T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2016-06-15T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:26:38","slug":"you-have-my-full-permission-to-insult-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2015\/politics\/you-have-my-full-permission-to-insult-me.html\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have my Full Permission to Insult Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the issue of free speech comes up, some joker makes a comment saying &#8220;What if I were to insult you and abuse you? How would you feel then?&#8221; The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/aib-roast-mumbai-court-orders-fir-against-organisers-karan-johar-739044\">legal troubles of the AIB roast<\/a> highlight the problem of busybodies in India. Jobless people who get offended on someone else&#8217;s behalf even when they haven&#8217;t seen or read the work in question. Or worse, who\u00a0<em>deliberately<\/em> choose to watch it,\u00a0<em>knowing<\/em> that it&#8217;s for adults and with full disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>So just to forestall any future questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I hereby given anyone and everyone full permission to abuse and insult me in any way they wish. What&#8217;s more, you can also defame me, lie about me, and spread whatever rumors you want, insult my family, my ancestors, any god of your choosing, my (never to be born) kids, or whatever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all this, I will not hold anyone legally responsible. However, I may respond on my blog, or abuse you back, or rip you to shreds for any bullshit you may spew. But you&#8217;ll never see me go crying to the government to protect my &#8220;rights&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t be offended either. I might be. But you won&#8217;t see me filing an FIR. I will respond to words either with silence, or with my own words. Never with violence, or with legal sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don&#8217;t like me, or don&#8217;t like what I say, then let loose! Use the worst insults, or abuses you can think of. Want to see how it feels to vent your spleen? Go ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Mind you &#8211; I am under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2013\/rights-and-freedoms\/freedom-of-expression-of-course-i-can-block-you-out.html\/\">no obligation to publish your comments on my personal blog<\/a>. I can delete your comments for any reason of my choosing, and there&#8217;s not a damn thing you can do about it. But you&#8217;re more than welcome to use your own blog or your Facebook account or whatever. Be creative!<\/p>\n<p>This license also applies to any other works of &#8220;art&#8221;. You can paint me naked, or paint me doing terrible obscene stuff &#8211; I don&#8217;t care! So if we ever get into an argument about Freedom of Expression, never again ask the question &#8220;What if I were to abuse and insult you or your family?&#8221;, this blog post will be my answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to insult and abuse me? Go ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You Have my Full Permission to Insult Me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want to insult and abuse me? 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