Again, hopefully a few of you watch this but the same video again by Christopher Hitchens on Free speech and why Canada has it wrong.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...18149058958603
21 mins.
Quote:
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"your own right to hear or be exposed is as much involved in all these cases as is the right of the other to voice his/her view. Indeed as John Stuart Mills said, if all in society were agreed on the truth and beauty of value of one proposition; all except one person, it would be most important, in fact it would become even more important that this one heretic be heard because we would still benefit from his perhaps outrageous or appalling view. And in more modern times this has been said by a personal heroine Mia Rosen Luxenberg free speech is meaningless unless its means the freedom of the person who thinks differently."
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One of the many gems by Hitch in this speech.