... immigrants of the population. In a healthy democracy it is vital that smaller groups are heard, and there is no way to guarantee these voices if the government can restrict free speech. As social philosopher John Stuart Mill argued in On Liberty, a struggle always takes place between the competing demands of liberty and authority, and we cannot have the latter without the former: All that makes existence valuable to anyone depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed -- by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects for the operation of law. (1978, 5) The main arguments against certain speech acts are that they lead to negative physical acts. For example, pornography, hate speech and political polemic are causally linked to rape, hate crimes, and insurrection, and are therefore censored. However, it may be true that the people who commit hate crimes ...

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