Everywhere, unthinking mobs of “independent thinkers” wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. If “violence never solved anything,” cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don’t settle them.”  Another cliché at the top of my list: “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Uh, thanks. But who really cares.

I love arguments; I think democracy is all about disagreement, not agreement. But my point is that people usually say they’d defend my right to speak as way to avoid having an argument. It’s a cop-out. In other words, it’s non-responsive and irrelevant but it sounds bold and principled. You could just as easily say, “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will fight side by side with you when the Romulans attack.”~Jonah Goldberg

Right?!!