It is axiomatic that one that loves, loves God, loves the Good Spirits, loves the self, loves others. To love is to lead a good a spiritual and ethical life as one can. To be a good person requires that one knows the truth about things, people, and the world, and this entails that one seeks to know the truth, however painful, as best as one can grasp, and that one keeps testing oneself to whittle down the deceptions, illusions, biases and blind spots, that one carries with one and cherishes. One is scrutinizing oneself for self-deceptive rationales throughout one’s entire life.
Again, one cannot be good unless one knows what goals to aim for, the ones of value. To discover what is true requires unrestricted thought and free speech which allows one to put those thoughts into words, concepts, arguments and potential solutions.
Free speaking, free thinking and free writing allows one rationally to be more accurate and productive in discovering what is true, what is false, what is a good idea, what is a bad idea, what is beautiful and what is ugly.
With the goal to discover truth and live by its ethical implications is one of the highest human responsibilities and callings. This demands of any free people, any democratic or republican political arrangement, that the people enjoy radically free speech. Some narrow restrictions like threatening to murder someone, or maliciously defame someone, to yellow Fire in a crowded elevator, or seriously speak of blowing up the government aside, people need to enjoy radically free speech for a people to discover the truth, to then live by the truth, to keep a people free, prosperous and happy.
Leftists demand that free speech, that criticizes their slant on reality, speech that is or accused of being hate speech, speech that is accused of disinforming the masses, and speech that is considered verbally and conceptually pornographic violence against women, is to be silenced, censored, outlawed, made illegal and otherwise repressed.
They are totalitarian tyrants out to shut down the opposition with thought, words, speech and ideas that are not amenable to their narrative about reality.
We must return to the love of free speech—I disagree with you but I will die for your right to say what is disagreeable or offensive—that the wonderful, liberal Jews and the old ACLU exemplified in the 1978 march when the Nazi monsters were allowed to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois.
The Progressive censors of free speech do not mean anyone well. Their instincts are totalitarian—to force others to speak, think, and act only as they do—or else they should be arrested and sent to jail.
Even if the Progressives do not recognize their authoritarian proclivities, and counter-argue that their motive is to censor hate speech to protect the rights of putatively oppressed identity groups, my moral law is that bad means (The use of government force and legal threats) to gain a noble end (to protect the rights of the oppressed) are extremist or evil, leading only to chaos and hurt. Evil is thus spread in the world.
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