Comment by quotemstr

Mere opinions do not cause harm. The idea that mere ideas can be literally harmful --- that speech is violence --- is at the root of much of the social acrimony of the past few years. Long experience shows that attempting to police thought and speech generally backfires, and dressing up the idea of censorship with avoiding "harm" doesn't obviate these lessons. Every censor everywhere has done the job in the name of the good: that doesn't make the action beneficial.