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Isn’t the more important question, if you disagree with someone and had the power to censor them, would you do it? Unless people believe in free speech even wh
by landryraccoon 9y ago
Isn’t the more important question, if you disagree with someone and had the power to censor them, would you do it?
Unless people believe in free speech even when it benefits points of view they disagree with, its future in society is in peril. Nobody wants opinions they like to be censored, it’s much more difficult to say that the NRA or religious fundamentalists should have the same protected right of speech as everyone else.
- tannerwj 9y agoExactly. We don't need protections for the speech we like. Free speech exists for the speech we don't like.
- liberte82 9y agoDemocracy requires shared values. It's what allows us to disagree in a civil manner. Once values become divergent enough, democracy is no longer really possible because accepting the outcome of losing becomes intolerable.