Seth Gordon [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>You may be interested in an essay by Stanley Fish called "There's No Such
*>Thing As Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too". Fish argues that behind
*>every argument in favor of free speech, there's an assumption that certain
*>kinds of speech, or certain speakers, should *not* be free -- nobody really
*>supports complete and unrestricted freedom of expression, because the only
*>society that could have such freedom is a society where nobody is affected
*>by what anyone else says.
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ahr/archive/Issue-February-1998/fish.html
http://www.cas.usf.edu/JAC/122/olson.html
He offers a rather thought provoking polemic though he is a bit of a
neo-conservative.
If there were true freedom of expression, we wouldn't have politics,
castes, classes and pecking orders, indeed. Link lemmings in search of an
ocean :)
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