Debate: Should the government be regulating baby names?
Side: NO

But we need to see what is more valuable first.Limited or restricted speech is not freedom of speech. People's freedom to voice their opinions trumps other people's feelings.Don't hide the words 'offensive, hate-mongering' behind the word 'rights'.Don't hide the word "authoritarian" behind the word "offensive"The families that are hated on, despite them grieving over the loss of a close relative/soldier don't deserve the psychological anguish.Although the families are grieving it is still not grounds to take away anyone's freedom of speech. Again, limited speech is not free speech.Is it too much to ask to relieve people of such distress?That is not to much to ask, it is to much to ask when you make it illegal for them to voice their opinions and take away their freedom of speech.Or do you just sympathize the people who must feel very depressed for not being able to to spill their hate, and spread anger on everyone?I sympathize with the people who are being hated, however, saying "please refrain from using your speech in a way we don't like, or we'll have to call the cops"Because they must feel worse than the grieving families, because one of their 'rights' have been taken away from them.Freedom of speech is a right, regardless of how bad these families feel, taking someones right to express themselves is not an option... well, for any free society that is.But seriously, think about the meaning of 'rights' and why they existed in the first place; to ensure order and general happiness.ABSOLUTELY NOT! They were NEVER intended to insure order, do you know much orderly things would be if you had no rights? The government can take away your right to argue with it, suddenly, no political chaos and the politicians may do as they please without criticism. General happiness was also never intended, we had rights so that certain things could not be taken away, ex: Freedom of Speech, where no matter how much the majority wants it, no matter mow much the minority wants it and no matter how much the government wants it, you can't take away someone's right to free speech. That is not general happiness, we don't have freedom of speech to we can tell funny jokes that would other wise be illegal, we have them so we can debate and argue about the best way to run things, in case you haven't noticed, arguing is not generally a Happy thing. We should have a flexible system that supports the best for everyone; not mindlessly following fallible rules with many cracks in between. Democracy is a flexible system, this is why we have rights, so that if the population voted to install a king or legalize slavery, they couldn't. because even though the majority (who is usually very uninformed) voted or decided to make these changes, they can't won't be put into place. Although many people blindly follow these rules, I don't, I questioned them and support them now. If I didn't question them I would have said "well fuck you, I'm right because the rules say so" and blocked you. Enough of this mindless conformity; we need to really look at what really helps us.Taking away free speech so that people have to conform to a social norm of "not hating" is conformity.