{"id":2788,"date":"2020-12-17T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/the-right-to-an-opinion\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:29:21","slug":"the-right-to-an-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/the-right-to-an-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to an Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The right to express an opinion does not absolve one of the obligation to do one&#39;s level best to form correct opinions. &#0160;Note however that the <em>legal<\/em> (and moral) right to free speech guaranteed&#0160; to the American citizen by the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution remains even if one shirks one&#39;s<em> moral<\/em> (but not legal) obligation to do one&#39;s best to form correct opinions. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right to express an opinion does not absolve one of the obligation to do one&#39;s level best to form correct opinions. &#0160;Note however that the legal (and moral) right to free speech guaranteed&#0160; to the American citizen by the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution remains even if one shirks one&#39;s moral (but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/the-right-to-an-opinion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Right to an Opinion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,231,311,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-free-speech","category-rights-and-duties","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}