| I reserve the right to be opinionated, to
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| | on everything.
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| speak, to strongly hold ideas, ideals or
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| | And I freely extend the same right to
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| ideologies, and to advocate them.
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| | you.
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| I reserve the right to make truth claims,
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| to hold positions even if others may take
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| | Somewhere, sometime, someone decided that
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| offense. But I will not abuse others.
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| | public debate and politics meant you had
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| I reserve the right to be idealistic,
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| | to assert you knew everything, that your
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| optimistic, not cynical or jaded, nor
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| | worldview had to be simple, complete and
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| comfortably relativistic or postmodern.
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| | perfectly ordered, and that everything
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| Others are free to be any of these.
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| | your opponents thought and said was just
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| I reserve the right to believe in things
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| | spin and lies. Well the world is not
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| for which there is more hope than
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| | simple, and my views on it are not simple
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| evidence.
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| | either. I am passionate about some
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| I reserve the right to be wrong.
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| | things, interested in many things, and
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| I reserve the right to experiment with
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| | often ambivalent or conflicted over other
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| ideas that I am not sure about. I reserve
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| | things. It is a shame that more of our
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| the right to more strongly advocate ideas
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| | public figures do not freely assert the
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| than I actually feel.
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| | right to change their minds, to disagree
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| I reserve the right to change my mind as
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| | respectfully, to sometimes be wrong, or
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| the world changes.
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| | to sometimes be silent. Silence from
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| I reserve the right to hold ambiguous,
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| | pundits and politicians - wouldn't that
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| complex and sometimes contradictory ideas
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| | be a change!
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| or ideals in complicated circumstances. I
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| | This bill of rights is fundamentally
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| have not figured everything out; I never
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| | about the purposes of civil society and
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| will.
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| | civil discourse and public debate. You
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| I reserve the right to advocate policies
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| | would probably write a slightly different
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| in one time or situation, and oppose
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| | set of rights for yourself in order to
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| similar policies in other times or
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| | frame, develop and express your ideas.
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| situations, especially if those policies
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| | But that is exactly the point. We may all
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| - upon testing them - turn out to be
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| | speak. By speaking and writing and
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| ineffective or damaging.
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| | publishing, we grapple with the world and
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| I reserve the right to compromise to
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| | its knotted problems. If the world's
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| achieve good, but not perfect, solutions
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| | problems were simple, then smart people
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| to bad problems.
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| | would have solved them a long time ago.
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| I reserve the right to hold ideas that do
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| | The world's problems, conflicts and
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| not fit orthodox ideological molds. I
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| | tragedies are fraught with ambiguity and
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| refuse to be defined by others'
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| | differing perspectives.
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| categories or philosophies or terms.
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| | The power of civil society is the
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| I reserve the right to be a hypocrite -
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| | democratic power of multitudes speaking,
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| if what you mean by hypocrisy is to
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| | discussing, testing and trying ideas. As
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| really believe in something and advocate
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| | one set of policies proves itself less
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| it, but not always be able to live up to
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| | effective, we try others. Some of the
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| it.
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| | proposed ideas, policies or solutions are
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| I reserve the right to disagree with you,
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| | bound to be wrong-headed, or foolish, or
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| to disagree with my friends, to disagree
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| | just not work. In that case I hope I will
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| with anyone (maybe even myself in part).
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| | disagree. If they were my ideas, my
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| I reserve the right to voice that
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| | speech, or my advocacy, then I take
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| disagreement openly, but respectfully, by
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| | responsibility for them. Then I may admit
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| speaking energetically, incisively,
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| | I was wrong and change my mind. In many
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| sometimes passionately, but not
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| | cases, we will simply have to disagree.
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| abusively.
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| | I reserve the right to have opinions and
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| I reserve the right to sometimes be
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| | passionately advocate them, to believe in
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| silent - to not have an opinion or an
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| | idealistic positions, to sometimes be
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| answer, to not advocate a position, to
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| | wrong, to change my mind, to compromise,
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| not define myself, to not assert
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| | to disagree with others, and to sometimes
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| expertise. I am not obliged to weigh in
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| | be silent.
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