Freedom of speech is overrated
With everyone having an opinion and having the means to express it, the value of each opinion gets diminished, due to a lack of scarcity. We can't sit and evaluate everyone's opinions, as most of us do not care about most things, may not have the proper info to judge, and our time is quite limited. This encourages people to be loud and obnoxious, because in a world where everyone can have an opinion, you need to find some way to get others' attention. Because most people who have the confidence to be so loud are typically idiots who are unaware of how complex the issues they're blabbing about really are, we get loudmouths polluting the environment with their noxious stupidity. Otherwise, we get people who simply want a reaction or want to demonstrate their power over others by not arguing in good faith and intentionally trying to demoralize everyone else by forcing them to point out absurdities that the speaker couldn't care less about (picture an toddler delighting in his ability to make the maid pick up after him as he throws food on the floor). Talk is cheap and nobody really has to put their money where their mouth is these days, due to the freedom of not being held accountable for what comes out of them. We ought to bring back the concept of dueling - I'd like to see some of those politicians who make a cesspool of everything with their diarrhea of the mouth get a brand new hole in them.
| Not true | 8 | |
| Other | 2 | |
| True enough | 1 | |
| Very true | 1 | |
| I see your point, but no | 6 | |
| That's quite a whopper you're telling | 2 |