> the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy You're contradicting yourself: First, you deny that there a

> the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy You're contradicting yourself: First, you deny that there are graduations in "freedom", saying it's all-or-nothing. But then, a democracy's quality is apparently proportional to its freedom of speech, implying that there are, indeed, nuances.