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    womthang reacted to Eiuol in Where does free-speech stop and a threat begin: SCOTUS to consider   
    There may be meaning of words, but the objective meaning would need intentions. A person can abuse language and etymology, even conventions, which relates to general or reasonable interpretations. Abusing that is ignoring what is true about language as well as any evaluations of the concepts behind the words. But what a PERSON means is all about intention. I'm not talking about what the word fire means, but what the person means or implies by saying fire. Yelling "fire" intends for people to run away, not just to say "a fire is happening". Is the intention to cause deliberate disruption? If yes, does that endanger someone else unknowingly? If yes again, then why is it a right of a property owner to say it's okay to do that?
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