3 Mar
2001
3 Mar
'01
10:48 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:47:09PM -0800, Tim May wrote, quoting someone:
But now, I am beginning to see what you are saying. We shouldn't blame *speech* for the result of speech. It's the *result* of said speech that should be the grounds of wrongness. Makes sense to me.
If you are this easily persuaded, and come at "free speech" with such confusion, you have a lot of reading ahead of you. I envy you, actually.
Right. Put another way, the reason we care about free speech and want to protect it is precisely *because* it has powerful results. -Declan