It should not be necessary to limit the freedom of individuals or groups to express opinions except when they could cause
grave harm to others or a threat to public order.
Not exact matches
I can't help but think of Matthew Scully, who put it this way, «Justice is not some finite commodity, nor are kindness and love... a wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the
gravest harm to ourselves and
others.»
In short, the common law is that a person who witnesses a crime or
other emergency that is placing another person at risk of
grave physical
harm has no «duty
to rescue» or
to do anything whatsoever.