chris t ([info]lifftchi) wrote,
@ 2008-12-02 13:20:00
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generalization concerning a complex system.
[info]officialgaiman has a nice thing on free speech qua basic principle. (Originally published as http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html .)

I like it especially because -- although I've always felt the same way -- it's tough for me to avoid feeling a bit unwholesome about the whole thing, as if, as [info]jwz said, it were "more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are... something else entirely." Gaiman's done a good job of both addressing the principle and dispelling those doubts, which really makes me feel a little better about the whole thing.


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