Free Speech And Why It Matters

freedom of speech is eroded if not continually defended over time.

To assume that defending another’s right to speech is a form of approval of its substance is a grave error

The appeal of ideologies is that they absolve us of the obligation to think for ourselves.

to make the leap from the natural revulsion we experience at certain alternative worldviews to actively silencing them is to surrender to the authoritarian tendency.

when speech is met with threats, censorship, defamation, harassment, intimidation, violence or police investigation that freedom becomes compromised. These are the tools of cancel culture.

‘hate’, ‘offence’, ‘perception’ – that are hopelessly subjective.

in censoring the abusive individual we lose the opportunity to expose the iniquity of their beliefs through public admonition.

There is no contradiction in holding individuals in contempt for their repugnant views and simultaneously defending their right to express them.

Free speech dies when the populace grows complacent and takes its liberties for granted.