...[I]f we determine that the yardstick for allowable and unallowable speech is someone else's sensitivity, pretty soon there will be nothing left to talk about. Sensitivity is a subjective trait and the law, with all its shades and penumbras and variations in interpretation, needs a pretty objective, abstract, and general standard. The minute we allow feelings to determine the boundaries of freedom, we will all be slaves.
Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- R.W. Emerson
Monday, February 06, 2006
Freedom of Speech
Emmanuele Ottolenghi, who writes on the Cartoon Jihad today at NRO, provides one of the most eloquent defenses of freedom of speech that I've seen:
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