Defining movies have defining moments. In the movie, Dead Poet's Society, the moment of truth for the professor lecturing a class of soon-to-be Harvard grads, happens when one student stands on his desktop in defiance of reading the literature placed before him. Clearly breaking a social "norm," the students are aghast at this one individual's expression of his freedom of speechˇor defying good manners in a classroom settingˇdepending on the view point. The truth is, norms and rights are not always synonymous. Rules, regulations and guiding principles create the fabric of a functioning society.
Some might argue that individual rights and freedoms of expression makeup a functioning society built on independent thinking and principle. However, when it comes to group setti
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