However, the principles of law that stipulate limitations to the right of opinion are equally severe, and are all part of the concept that freedom of expression is not admissible when is provoking severe damage to others. A person who expresses such an opinion would have zero opportunity to become a pizzaiolo.Īre these very common ostracisms against somebody else’s false perceptions a limitation of freedom of expression? Freedom of expression is a right that has been voiced from the very first experiments of democracy by Athenians and is established in many modern national constitutions, including the First Amendment of the American Constitution.
Even in situations that are much more trivial, like for example a Neapolitan pizza, the person who expresses their perspective that it’s better to put cream and strawberries on a pizza rather than mozzarella and tomato, is believed to be a jester by everyone. In the field of health, the same goes for a surgeon that thinks that lung cancer can be cured with lemon and bicarbonate: obviously he is immediately expelled from the profession. Therefore, as an example, no judge would ever allow a public prosecutor that accuses a suspect based on their own impressions and with no proof to speak in a courtroom. These behaviours regarding truth and false perceptions are now completely rejected by societies that are evolved in their relations with common good, management of public affairs, professionality that impact the lives and the quality of the lives of everybody.
Even the second part of Ivanka Trump’s quote matches with many lovers or people of faith, that indeed do not try to correct a false perception because it plays to their advantage. And every religion has some “truth of Faith”, some facts that can’t be recognized as real with scientific or historical proofs, and therefore people of faith believe in them in the name of faith, even when a scientific analysis of those realities would suggest that they are in fact falsities. When in love, we prefer to believe in our own perception of reality, instead that in reality itself. Indeed, we all agree that when we are in love, we think our beloved is the best person in the world and we are often blind to their flaws. We do not know if this quote, that has become extremely famous, had something to do with her personal life. It was October 2009, and Ivanka had just turned 28, got married and converted from Presbyterian Christianity to Orthodox Judaism since 2 months. This statement is taken from a book-interview, authorized by Ivanka Trump so not just an impromptu line, out of context, or just a joke that came out with her friends in the girls’ locker room. This is how a young Ivanka Trump, daughter of the future President of the United States, described her relation with truth and false perception, her own and others’, in 2009. When I read it, I was astonished by its clarity in declaring the acceptability of what is false. This doesn’t mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don’t go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. Perception is more important than reality. By Sandro Calvani, Senior Adviser and President of the Scientific Committee of the Social Change School
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