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The Metaphysical Club

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Importance of Free Speech

The first amendment is a football it is. It's very controversial because it requires us to tolerate opinions that we find abhorrent. But holmes was saying, in his opinion, he says, even ideas we find loathsome and fraught with death, he said we have to protect the right to express them. That's aninteresting point. I mean, i think another point he made too, sort of ameta idea about the importance of free speech, was that when you censure someone else,. he says, you're actually sensing yourself.

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