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Originally Posted by TGS
If my local butcher, baker or candlestick maker held views similar to those of Orson Scott Card, and made a point of publicizing them, I would find somewhere else to buy my meat, bread or...candlesticks. Would that be in some way wrong?
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For me it would be, yes. Voltaire is supposed to have said (but actually didn't) "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it". It's the right to say unpopular things that need defending; if you're saying "I'm going to punish you for what you say" then you're effectively suppressing the right to free speech, in my view.