re: #461 iossarian

My view (which I don’t intend to push on anyone particularly hard) is that this dualism between “speech” and “action” is too neat and doesn’t reflect what happens in the real world well enough. I think there need to be some curtailments on speech, in some cases. Verbal bullying of children and teens would be an example; there are others.

But I will agree that the US position is close to being ideal. In general it’s probably better to err on that side of the line than the other.

I was talking about adults. We certainly observe restrictions regarding minors.

A lot of humor goes around several corners to make its point, the fact that it offends a few people along the way is irrelevant.