talking about public domain...

A public domain, my friend, is an area or territory that is owned by the public, meaning that this territory could be easily accessed as well as freely used by the public or society.

My blog, I think, is a public domain. Everyone could easily access my blog, read its contents, and of course, give comments for whatever things I wrote.
However, knowing that nearly everyone, with whatever point of views, philosophical beliefs, as well as various temperaments and dispositions could, without a hitch, access my blog, definitely, I will state it again boldly, definitely would not stop me from writing whatever I want to write in my blog.

I have full freedom to write all my thoughts which in most cases reflect my mood and my emotional state at that moment. When I’m feeling melancholy, mostly my entries would reflect the sadness I feel inside, if not to say could be even sappy and sickly mawkish. And when I’m feeling happy, the readers of my blog would somehow notice the mushy gushy language I use, the sugar-coated tone, as well as the merriment in every sentence. Now, the same thing also happened when I’m feeling disturbed, disgusted, terrified by something, or whatever emotional state I’m feeling at that moment. I will, without inhibition, pour it out within the entries I write for my blog.

I also perfectly aware that not everybody sees my blog, or at least see their blog, as the way I see mine. Some people use and make their blog as a form of rebel, some use it as a place to speak out their inner philosophical beliefs and to make people see from their point of view, some use it to express their devotion towards objects they’re admire, some use it to communicate with others, some other use it because they have too much thoughts on their mind and need to spill it out, and many other reasons. All reasons are acceptable, there is nothing, I repeat, nothing that could restrain it. There’s no such rule or regulation that could acceptably state or determine what should or should not be put in one’s blog.

Now, if in one point, there’s someone that happens not to agree with the content I wrote on my blog, of course that person have the same freedom as I possess to express whatever state he or she has in his or her mind. And me, as the one being objected, or criticized, or even condemned, also have the same freedom to express my rejection towards his or her opinion for my writings, with all of the justifications I owned. I see that equal possession of freedom as one of the concept of the public domain.

However, there’s another concept that I believe also included in the concept of public domain. That is, every opinion and every viewpoint that is thrown inside the territory of the public domain should be able to be responsibly explicated or clarified by its owner. I mean, when somebody throws an opinion, that opinion should be perfectly provided with logic supporting facts or enough reasonable grounds. In other word, the person suggests one idea should be able to explain that idea, the reasons why he or she chooses that idea, or what makes he or she thinks the idea is valid and acceptable. Thereby, whatever costs or impacts that are caused by the first concept of public domain, that is the equal possession of freedom to speak, would not lead into some chaotic misunderstandings, let alone some unnecessary hostility among each others, for all of the opinions could be responsibly explained and supported with reasonable facts and logical reasons. As a matter of fact, with those freedoms to speak followed by the fully provided reasonable facts and logical reasons, I believe that the only thing it would lead is the opportunity to interchange opinions and see from each other point of views. By that, we could learn to dive into somebody else’s mind that is totally different from ours, understand the reasons behind his or her actions and observe his or her stands toward something. By that we could see and accept differences with a fully objective point of view and does not give some ludicrous prejudices even when that point of view is totally different from ours. By that we could learn to agree to disagree.


--sisie--