Like many have said already, I don't think I ever thought of the act of thinking as a right. Thinking has just always been something natural to do. It's hard to imagine thinking as a right because no one can exactly know what and when you're thinking without you telling them. The act of thinking as a "right" is an idea hard to grasp because it seems nearly impossible to fully control what one person's thinking without actually wiring their brains and monitoring their thoughts. To me the play Inherit the Wind wasn't necessarily about the right to think, but more like the right to being informed. The people of Hillsboro had always been able to think, but they should have had the right to be informed about all theories about how we became, created or evolved. Many of the townspeople weren't even fully informed about evolutionism or ever read or had learned about it because it was the theory was looked down on. The townspeople in my opinion had the right to think and could have believed in any theory they wanted because no one really forced them to believe in creationism and only creationism; but their thoughts were greatly influenced by society. Not everyone fully believed in creationism or the bible, peoeple were just afraid to speak up because they were afraid of being unaccepted or can outcast. The play Inherit the Wind and the trial was more about the right to freely express and make people realize it's ok to have different opinions and thoughts and to speak about it, because without vocalizing a thought, it's just in your mind.
After reading the play Inherit the Wind my opinion of this concept did change because I never thought about the right to think prior to this play. I can't say excatly what my opinion on it is, but I know that reading this play has gotten me to think about our rights to think. Hopefully in the near future I'll understand the concept better and give a compelete opinion on it.
Emily Lee
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