the value of free speech

Mostly I find the com­ments on the larger blogs to be so much me-to-ism but this after­noon I came across this com­ment on a post about a silly anti-non-Christian (yes i made that word up) adver­tise­ment used by a Cal­i­for­nia car deal­er­ship that was in boing-boing.

One of the great­est gifts of truly under­stand­ing the notion of free speech is being nei­ther offended nor par­tic­u­larly inter­ested when some­one exer­cises their right to say some­thing inflam­ma­tory. Their speech is, after all, free. And you likely under­stand by this point that, except in rare cases, you get what you pay for.

I think I got much more than the usual value for this one.

credit goes to one air­pool (com­ment #23)