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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (68063)	11/25/2002 5:56:56 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Decency is the glove that fits the hand of responsible free speech. One is not sacrificed for the other. To sacrifice either is irresponsible and deplorable behavior. No such conflict exists among honorable people.

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (68063)	11/25/2002 6:06:46 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, you would find little agreement among those who know me that I'm a cold man, but let that pass. What I am, I think, or at least what I try to be, is a man who tries hard when necessary temporarily to put emotion aside in order to look at the logic and rationality of a situation. Frankly, I think it's one of the qualities Monica appreciated in me. I don't think it an important free speech issue, there are a myriad of other things that can and should test free speech, not the memory of a kind and caring woman The problem is that every issue that truly tests free speech is necessarily very sensitive to somebody. Otherwise, it wouldn't become an issue. So, unfortunately, every case like this becomes an important free speech issue. Free speech is only an issue at the fringes. Where free speech is most unpopular, even reviled, is precisely where it is most in need of being defended. Wherever people are offended by speech, they tend often to say it isn't a free speech issue. But in reality, it is. Not solely that, of course. As you and Karen and Neo and I all recognize, it's also a decency issue, a compassion issue, a making the humane decision issue. All of those. But it is also a free speech issue.