Title: Why Suppressing Free Speech to Protect Religion Is a Bad Idea | HuffPost
Headings: Why Suppressing Free Speech to Protect Religion Is a Bad Idea
Why Suppressing Free Speech to Protect Religion Is a Bad Idea
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Content: Of course not, because doing so will also prevent scientists from finding a cure for the disease. Again, political correctness must not be allowed to kill discussion and debate of important topics - especially when such discussions are clearly linked to actual life and death for thousands or even millions of people all over the world. That’s not equality, that’s insanity. Here is some more food for thought: If we accept the idea of banning speech because it provokes someone, then the protests over police brutality should never have been allowed to happen. After all, those protests did eventually “incite” the cold-blooded murder of two NYPD officers by a madman. Similarly, if we really want to protect everyone’s feelings, we should immediately stop discussing race in America altogether, since it must certainly be hurtful to white people, or stop staying “Oh, God!” since that’s got to be blasphemous for an atheist. If that sounds silly, it’s because the more thin-skinned we become as a society, and the deeper we sink into the safe and noncontroversial arms of political correctness, the further away we will get from the truth and common sense. Of course, we should still try to exercise restraint and respect other’s beliefs - it is a prerequisite to civilized discourse, but that is part of a social contract, not a legal one.