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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I think it's too bad that the conversation has gone into the topic of censorship, which is in a lot of ways an easier issue to settle. Obviously part of the negative cost of free speech is that from time to time we have to listen to cretins like Kirk Cameron flogging their snake oil on public airways. That's just how it works--it's the price we pay for being able to say whatever we want to, when we want to say it.
In fact, the real counter-action to someone like Kirk Cameron is not censorship: it's ridicule.
Kirk Cameron has every right to be an idiot. We also have every right to call him an idiot, and to make fun of him for his utterly risible ideas. That's called the marketplace of ideas, and if it works as it should, eventually the truth will win out, and morons like Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron will sink into infamy and obscurity, which is where they belong.
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I don't think a single poster was in favour of censorship at any point in this entire debate. I was accused of it, but in fact I was saying pretty much what you are saying.