
Originally Posted by
Smartmouthwoman
You're very naive if you think decisions to purchase educational materials are made on a local level. Trust me, the owner of this site isn't interested in what you think. The school district won't be interested either... they hear from nuts all the time.
Even though schools rarely allow free and open communications within their confines, they are rarely going to boycott a business because it provides a forum for free and open communication. Kenvin's problem is that he believes any allowance for speech he dislikes means that those who allow the speech to continue advocate the opinions expressed. Fortunately, there are remarkably few people like that. Unfortunately, many of them get into power and push for bills like SOPA and CISPA.
"The principle that the end justifies the means is, in individualist ethics, regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule" -- F. A. Hayek.
"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage" -- Joseph Addison's "Cato, A Tragedy" (1713)
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
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