@MrMaxPowers247 Freedom of speech is the freedom to be *wrong*.
Because sometimes that which is thought to be wrong isn't actually wrong. We know that the common belief has turned out to be wrong for most of human history. The only way to find the truth is to test both truths and falsehoods.
Christopher Columbus thought if he travelled west he'd hit India. He was wrong, and hit a completely different continent. Regardless, he called the people he found "indians", a name that exists in some form today, 600 years later. Should we have suppressed anyone who claimed they weren't Indians and that the continent he landed on wasn't India? If you ask the covid Karens, the answer would be "Yes".
Because sometimes that which is thought to be wrong isn't actually wrong. We know that the common belief has turned out to be wrong for most of human history. The only way to find the truth is to test both truths and falsehoods.
Christopher Columbus thought if he travelled west he'd hit India. He was wrong, and hit a completely different continent. Regardless, he called the people he found "indians", a name that exists in some form today, 600 years later. Should we have suppressed anyone who claimed they weren't Indians and that the continent he landed on wasn't India? If you ask the covid Karens, the answer would be "Yes".
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