RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 4, 2015 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2015 at 4:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Nestor Wrote: I'm curious if anyone has or will hold "free speech events" in Europe to advocate people's rights to deny the Holocaust (where 14 nations outlaw such rhetoric and have even imprisoned "offenders")---not on the grounds that they think it never actually occurred, but on the principle that no one should be treated as criminals for expressing a point of view that threatens to harm no one, however dumb it may be.
Practically, sustainable freedom of speech is incompatible with complete freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not a suicide pact. Those who argue principles forgets it is the concession to the practical that allows any principle to be worth anything at all.
