I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to articulate my thoughts on the topic and this is what I’ve come up with so far. Assuming you value it, freedom is important to defend far above and beyond any particular use of that freedom. I don’t care about Mohammed pictures beyond the fact that I strongly believe people should have the right to draw them. I even don’t like septum piercings, but I would strongly protest any campaign to get them banned. The value of any given insult to human society is negligible, probably even negative, but the value of being allowed to insult is incalculable.
I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to articulate my thoughts on the topic and this is what I’ve come up with so far. Assuming you value it, freedom is important to defend far above and beyond any particular use of that freedom. I don’t care about Mohammed pictures beyond the fact that I strongly believe people should have the right to draw them. I even don’t like septum piercings, but I would strongly protest any campaign to get them banned. The value of any given insult to human society is negligible, probably even negative, but the value of being allowed to insult is incalculable.