“Are We Blindly Sacrificing Our Freedoms? The Hidden Costs of Ignoring the First Amendment”
In a world where we’re bombarded with reminders to cherish our rights, have you ever found yourself blissfully ignoring the very freedoms that seem so solid? This cheeky piece from The Onion dives into that very notion, as the author playfully admits to taking the First Amendment for granted until it inevitably vanishes. Why fret over freedoms when you can kick back and assume everything’s fine until, well, it’s not? Join the writer on this journey of delightful naivety, where it’s perfectly acceptable to lounge in your armchair and wait for the moment you realize those rights aren’t as unyielding as one might hope. After all, ignorance is bliss—at least until it isn’t! So, if you’re curious about this refreshing take on complacency and the consequences of our freedoms being taken for granted, you should definitely check it out. <a href="https://theonion.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PCPWEMustProtectFFHEADERIHA_GR.jpg”>LEARN MORE.
COUNTERPOINT
No Thanks, I’ll Just Take My Freedoms For Granted Until They Disappear
Um, I’m not. Sorry if that makes me sound like a dick. I’m not against the First Amendment or anything. If someone said I could, like, erase the First Amendment right now, I’d say “no” in two seconds. It’s just that the First Amendment is not something I think about or intend to think about anytime in the future. I guess what I’m planning to do is just take my First Amendment freedoms for granted until they’re gone.
Look, a busy person like me isn’t going to spend a bunch of time in his day going to bat for the First Amendment, not when I can just act like it’ll always be there until one day I’m proven disastrously wrong. For me, it’s much more convenient to pretend that the First Amendment is untouchable and then discover way too late that its freedoms are fragile and can actually be stripped away from all of us. Possibly forever.
Yeah, I’ll eventually learn the hard way. For now, though, I’m more than okay with fooling myself into believing I won’t.
If you ask me what freedoms are contained in the First Amendment, I can give you speech, and I think religion’s another? Maybe the right to choose lunch? I dunno. I can’t tell you what the others are, or even how many there are, which is totally fine because I’m just waiting until they vanish to find out what they used to be. Makes sense, right?
Hey, if people want to protect the First Amendment, I’m not going to stop them. I hope they do a great job. And who knows? Maybe I’ll check in on my rights from time to time. But if I’m being honest, I’m just going to kick back and assume all is well until it really, really isn’t. I guess it won’t matter what I do after that.
