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Well, I don't know. Freedom of speech is also a principle. Public accommodation and non-discrimination are also principled. We don't need laws to see these as a public good. We shouldn't parse these ideas into orthogonal pretzels just because wokeness.
> We don't need laws to see [freedom of speech] as a public good. I think it's very easy to refute this statement by looking at any country where freedom of speech isn't guaranteed by law. The most populous country in the world is a glaring example.
I mean to imply the principle transcends law, that the law does not provide the justification for the moral
principle. Sorry for the misunderstanding.