Offensive speech should be protected, but, if you speak only to offend, you're still an asshole. Classical Liberals are making a strategic error defending offensive speech in particular so often, instead of free speech in general.
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Replying to @Evolving_Ego
As soon as you insinuate that speech in general is protected, but offensive speech is less so, people will declare speech they don't like as offensive. And those that use it will be declared assholes. Which is exactly what happens. Do you need examples?
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Replying to @Plinz @Evolving_Ego
People are losing sight of the relationship between free speech and responsibility. As children we were taught that screaming FIRE in a crowded theatre is less about speech and more about inciting unnecessary chaos.
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Funny, that is something nobody had to teach us as children, it was too obvious. We had to be taught to listen to each other if we disagreed, because that went against our instincts. And to shut our mouth when the police was nearby (our government did not believe in free speech).
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