Why Free Speech

Because we are not infinitely wise, our rationality is bounded; because we are not equally wise; because ideas matter, and because markets work.

Everything you see around yourself began as an idea, was embodied in stuff, and survived in the marketplace competition with other stuff.

Bad ideas have to be confronted. Free speech and expression is important because it exposes bad ideas. Censoring of expression is bad because the censors cannot be infinitely wise because no one is.

-Atanu