Hmm I guess that freedom of speach as a word in it self means you have the right to say anything you like regardless of the truth or fact behind it. The trouble with this is that you can go spread alot of lies and destroy peoples lives. I think that a healthy deabte is good enough and that people shuld be able to say what they believe and want to, but they must also be ready to face the responsibility for doing such. No man can cry freedom without having to bear responsibility IMHO. If I want to say anything I like, I better be ready to listen to anything.
So this is smelling Kansas for me (Alice is a great book by the way!
) So I would have to say that freedom of speech has to follow the democratic lines of freedom. You have to keep to realism, and canīt go around spreading lies or freely speak of things that will hurt people.
But I donīt think people should ban the difficult toppics, I think that rather then banning them, keep it controlled and only let them surface in discussions where people can answer them. Hmm, still smelling Kansas here..
Itīs a difficult topic since the nature of freedom of speech and beliefs is apart of Democracy, the very core some would say.
Freedom is good, but responsibility must exist, and since we are not that resposible on a generlising aspect, (ie we still have courts, lawyers, prisons etc etc) I think we still need to have a couple of lines.