Instead of prohibiting ‘hate speech’, we should just prohibit all claims made without reasons.
Oh how our society would change! If we were legally compelled to provide reasons, justifications, evidence, for every claim we made in public…
No exemptions for politicians – every speech, every statement to the press…
No exemptions for business – every ad, my god, that one alone gives one pause…
Go ahead. Say whatever you think. But only if you also say why you think it.
How ridiculous most of us would sound most of the time. Our almost complete dependence on immature appeals to emotion, our thin and pathetic appeals to custom, tradition, past practice majorities, questionable authorities – all exposed by expression. How silent we would suddenly fall after the unwarranted, self-righteous ‘because – ’ How quickly we would just – shut up.
