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> In any case, the ideal of free speech originated in the desire to share novel ideas and speak truth to power.

Did it? Or did it originate from the idea that it is immoral to react violently to noises coming out of somebody's face hole? By violence I mean real violence, not verbal violence, the kind of violence that a free society uses to control the activities of its members... hmm - that doesn't sound right at all.



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