badgenome on 24 January 2015
| RCTjunkie said: Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. As long as people can call out stupid ideas and work to better the world freedom of speech works. We should be able to criticize governments, institutions, and even people. The founding fathers of the US said that phrases like fire in a crowded theater isn't protected and that I understand. But limiting freedoms to protect feelings or "enhance security" is preposterous. |
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.
