>"There's nothing tricky about it. Hate speech is a vile thing, but you or I have as much right to say it as we say anything else." That's an opinion, and prec

>"There's nothing tricky about it. Hate speech is a vile thing, but you or I have as much right to say it as we say anything else." That's an opinion, and precisely why it's tricky. I understand "freedom of speech" is a fundamental representation of liberty, especially to Americans. There is also a school of thought that believes in looking at the normative angle of policy; when things can be determined, objectively, to be hateful or vile, why allow them? I'd rather live in a world that didn't allow hate speech than a world that does. Of course, how do you determine "hate speech" objectively, at the margin? That's the tricky part.