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Alan M. Dershowitz's 'Shouting Fire !'

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In the story “Shouting ‘Fire!’” Alan M. Dershowitz claims that Justice Holmes uses an analogy of “Shouting Fire!” His analogy refers to a person’s freedom of expression. Every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. By shouting “fire” an individual is implying alarm, and the indication of alarm will ultimately cause chaos. Many use this alarm not correctly and end up causing others to panic. For example when someone calls 911 it should be for a real serious reason, it is not something you play around with. People that do this may overshadow someone else’s true emergency. Furthermore, a childhood story that was told to my generation was “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” In that particular story the boy tricks the townspeople that there

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