Reply #39: Your argument is that "society" is injured by certain distasteful ideas,

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and therefore those ideas should be suppressed. My feeling is that the suppression of ideas is always a greater danger to society than the ideas themselves. Who gets to decide, after all, which ideas are bad and which are good? I don't particularly want Bush's FBI making up the country's mind about what is and isn't acceptable reading matter. Today it's kiddie-porn fiction on the internet, tomorrow, as I said before, it's Nabokov and Shakespeare. It's a free speech thing--that pesky first amendment.