Neil Gaiman on "freedom of icky speech"

[toothycat]

robhu sent this to me by email a while ago. I apologise for those of you who've seen it, but I thought it was worth posting again. It's a thought-provoking read.

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Why defend freedom of icky speech.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Pint to the first person to spot the huge gaping logic hole in Gaiman's argument.

S.

[toothycat]

Take it up with Gaiman ;)

[(Anonymous)]

If he points out the fallacy he can have the pint.

S.

[toothycat]

You should let him know he has the option.

[(Anonymous)]

I assume he checks his website referral logs.

If he doesn't, well, there's an old adage I once heard about the inevitable occurrence of an instance that includes a component identified by the necessary and sufficient feature of losing when the antecedent is characterised by the second person's indulgence of the state whose substantial attribute is snoozing.

S.

[toothycat]

Mornington Crescent.

That, sir, was a stroke of genius

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

*bwhahaha*

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it.

Pint still available.

S.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Nicely put :)

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked a link I sent :)