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    I find it reprehensible that anyone can even consider curtailing speech as a kneejerk reaction to violence.

Can we still curtail the yelling of "fire" in a crowded theatre?

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This tired, tired meme. It's a few hundred years old by now, isn't it? Does anyone who has a reasonable outlook on life really think that issuing a command that instantiates an instant tribal mob mentality on a cloistered group of people is the same as political speech?

False equivocations that you don't even really believe yourself aren't exactly good counter-arguments.

I have no enthusiasm for our exchange, to be honest. We won't have enough common ground. So I'll just bow out, and wish you a lovely evening.

Hitchens responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

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