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:

...[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.