It took one human to enslave another human, and no other humans to disagree with that motion, for this to have happened. People were truly free at one point. No laws, etc. But someone decided to enslave someone else, and the majority of people did not say, "That's not right! We won't let you get away with this!" It continuing to this day just shows that freedoms should be restricted, because people are selfish.

I'm confused. Aren't you supposed to be against slavery?

I don't think that at all. You're just using tunnel vision. I am saying the laws are there to restrict certain "freedoms" for a reason. That reason is that there are bad people who will do bad things with that freedom. I am saying that we shouldn't have true freedom of anything (speech or otherwise) because there are people who would abuse that. You're interpretting my words poorly.

No, the reason we have laws is that people who have power dislike something. Weimar Germany outlawing hate speech and banning the Nazi Party itself didn't prevent anything because, crazily enough, a law against saying something doesn't prevent people from actually saying it. All it does is enable the government to (selectively, as always) persecute certain people and make some bad people into sympathetic figures.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was not a founding father. And he coined that phrase as a justification for preventing a socialist from handing out anti-war leaflets, so it was still preposterous.

I think this kind of resentment built because (in this case) badge was rough with you is where the real solution needs to come in place. Walls need to be torn down, every day imho.

I personally really liked debating respectfully and civilly with you even if I disagreed with you, so keep it up.

Again, we need to break down the walls, and embrace the opinions of others in order to allow the better ideas to naturally bubble up. If we build walls, that process is stiffled.