{"id":117,"date":"2006-02-23T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-13T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:24:32","slug":"auch-wenns-weh-tut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Auch wenn's weh tut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>No one should be required to facilitate the expression of Holocaust denial, but neither should there be what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the \"silence coerced by law &#8212; the argument of force in its worst form.\" <\/p>\n<p>The point was poignantly made in Robert Bolt's play, \"A Man for All Seasons,\" in which William Roper and Sir Thomas More debate the relative balance between evil and freedom:<\/p>\n<p>\nRoper: So now you'd give the devil benefit of law.<\/p>\n<p>More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?<\/p>\n<p>Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that.<\/p>\n<p>More: Oh? And when the law was down &#8212; and the devil turned round on you &#8212; where would you hide? Yes, I'd give the devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.<\/p>\n<p>Call David Irving the devil if you like; the principle of free speech gives you the right to do so. But we must give the devil his due. Let Irving go, for our own safety's sake.<\/cite><br \/>\n[Michael Shermer, \"Free speech, even if it hurts\", <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-shermer22feb22,0,2752813.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\">in der LA Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolution-nextstep.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/22\/speech\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one should be required to facilitate the expression of Holocaust denial, but neither should there be what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the \"silence coerced by law &#8212; the argument of force in its worst form.\" The point was poignantly made in Robert Bolt's play, \"A Man for All Seasons,\" in which William&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Auch wenn's weh tut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalschnupfen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}