England has been pretty notoriously abridging the "right to offend" for years now. And as you point out, there's Germany. > Do we actually need [FoS]? It prob

England has been pretty notoriously abridging the "right to offend" for years now. And as you point out, there's Germany. > Do we actually need [FoS]? It probably depends on how much you trust the government to be "self-regulated" in prioritizing the liberty of the people over time. Democracy is not the natural state of things by any means.