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Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump

The Good Fight

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Is There a Boundary Problem, Which All Societies Have?

I think that we really have no choice in the end, but to debate issues of free speech on perfection as terms. It is true that when you do it that way, there will be people whose perfectionism produces for them different results than mine produces for me. But I'm saying that a perfectionist case can be made against civil liberty - and i think this is a powerful one. We can't have people denying science or truths about society because they are not perfect themselves. That's what antiperfectionist liberals don't seem to want... Wouldn't expect it from joe rogan or bret weinstein or heather hing  and so forth.

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