Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is a lot to say on this one, but one of the most disturbing trends in the last twenty years is the ever growing right not to be offended. If you are involved in public discourse, there is no way to avoid disagreement or attacks on your beliefs. Some of those attacks may even become personal. I'll have to write more on this later, but the ever growing percentage of us who are thin-skinned and seemingly fragile will not make for a happy nation when there is a surplus of lawyers and an abundance of media mongers.
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