[net.college] The Rights of the Audience

stuart (03/11/83)

The "hecklers" weren't attacking only J.K.
They were trying to prevent others from hearing what J.K. had to say. 
If J.K. offers to speak to those who are interested, 
and then many people show up to hear her, 
the "hecklers" are really overruling the
choice of those in the audience who took up J.K.'s offer.

This is similar to when some students decide, 
for whatever reason, that they have a right to
shutdown a university and prevent all the other 
students from receiving what THEY paid for.

Overruling others' free choice ---
Is this the way to "protect the rights of the oppressed" ?

  -- Stuart Hollander (ucbvax!decvax!genradbolton!stuart)