The article “Freedom of Speech and My Right to Silence at Bath Time” by Patti Waldmeir is about how telemarketers should not be calling family householders. Telemarketers get angry at the negative response the people give them when they call, but after all, they are disturbing people in the comfort of their own. However, these telemarketers also have freedom of speech. As it says in the article “… advertisers have a right to broadcast their wares, but consumers have a right to refuse to listen. ” Patti Waldmeir uses in her article logos.
She gives facts and people’s speech to get to her audience. Weldmeir makes her audience to believe that everybody would like to register in do-not-call or do-not-spam list. She uses claim of value because not everybody thinks telemarketers are frustrating or disturbing. Writer’s concept is freedom of listening. She defines it by not to be bothered during a catnap on a Sunday or bathing her children in peace without an invasion of the telemarketers. It is her freedom of listening. Wladmeir also supports freedom of speech that telemarketers have rights too.
Her negation type of definition of freedom is “… the U. S. Constitution intrudes into one’s daily life in America. ” Author uses restrictive type of definition by quote of Justice Louis Brandeis: “the right most valued by civilized men. ” His view is an influential oratorical tool for those who think their home should be more than a spam receptacle. Freedom of listening is an issue of the 21st century. As technology develops broadcasters start to look for the new possibilities to advertise their product.
One of the advertising methods is calling to the households. House owners think it is disturbing and frustrating. However, it is telemarketer’s job to call them. And there comes the issue on freedom of listening. One register to do-not-call list and it provokes violation of a free speech. Constitution concerns for everybody; somehow, it must protect all people. There are many usages of term freedom, but there are two that are important. On the one hand freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
By this, it means one can freely announce his opinion, mind, and act as he wants. However, one must be able to take responsibility of his action or speech. As in the article says telemarketers have freedom of speech and consumers have a right to refuse to listen. It is house owner’s choice to pick up the phone or not. On the other hand freedom is absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government. It means the country is not dependent from other country or part of it. Even people can be dependent from others. They do not make their own choices, just pretending to be an individual.
To learn how to be an individual is the first thing to learn, but when one does not know how and following others decision is not freedom. Freedom is when one knows how to handle his own problems, tries to make things work and makes own choices. It is same to the country. When in the country freedom people are happy and can enjoy their freedom. Freedom can be defined from many aspects of life and all can be true from that aspect.
