"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. "
- Louis E. Brandeis (Whitney v. California - 1927)
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And, unsurprisingly, there is a massively non-zero number of people who would see our society descend back into the chaos of irraional fears... You would think we would learn from history, but some people seem incapable.
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