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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (68044)	11/25/2002 5:39:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I don't like it, but that's a different thing from saying it shouldn't be said. As to those who didn't know Monica, this will sound harsh, but it really makes no difference to her what they think or believe about her, and it shouldn't make any difference to those who knew her. Would it be more decent not to have said it? Sure. But is the harm it does so serious as to prevent someone from being allowed to say it? In my view of life, no. And as I have said many times, it is exactly issues like this, where free speech and decency collide, that one's true commitment to freedom of speech gets tested. it isn't about free speech, but common decency It's about both. But if one has to be sacrificed, I am less unwilling to see common decency sacrificed than I am willing to see free speech sacrificed. There are prices to pay for freedom of speech. This is one of them.

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