I've heard ideas go on the shelf of history rather than the trash bin of history. So, there will be some who always hold bad ideas and eventually bad ideas will crop up again. Free speech gives us a chance to put bad ideas on the shelf.
So when are we going to put all the welfare and other social programs on the shelf and stamp them as failed? The current political landscape in the US is massive expansion of said programs and the other is continued slow growth of the same programs. Very few talk about actual cuts (any cut DC or states do is cuts to increased spending) to shrink the budgets and even fewer try to follow through with it.
I don't know when that will happen. I was describing why I think the concept of free speech is valuable, not that I think it is an instant cure to all our woes.
That's exactly why it is valuable, but no one is willing to talk about it currently in politics.
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