Respect for free speech must be cultivated because it does not come easily to human beings. We have a strong propensity to prefer our opinions to other people’s opinions and our ways to other people’s ways. We suppose that the world would improve if others would hold their tongues, recognize their errors, fall into line, and think as we think and say as we say and do as we do. To be sure, the powerful human impulse to censor other people’s opinions is contrary to the interests of free and democratic citizens. But that doesn’t mean the inclination to dismiss alternative points of view, silence…
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