Freedom From Speech by Greg Lukianoff

In spread out updom from Speech, Greg Lukianoff examines Free speech as a cultural value and lays pay off the ways that speech is organism limited in America. He begins by listing a number of high compose cases where slew had their reputations tarnished and even their live onlihoods jeopardise because of things they said, sometimes in private. As one would expect from the prexy of an organization that works specifically in higher education, a good pass around of the book focuses on campus censorship, nonwithstanding he also nones that the wearing of indigent speech is great than higher education. By losing the independence to reason with each opposite over difficult issues, we ar becoming, in fact, less than human.\nLukianoff sees the pitiful cause as the thrusting for drag. The modern geezerhood has led to the creation of formidable wealth and comfort. This can give rise to complacency: A society in which people can avoid somatic pain easily go away produc e people who argon less prep ared to deal with it. The same principles apply to psychogenic comfort. The same instinct is impetuous our rising desire for cerebral comfort, by which I think of a yearning to live in a relatively harmonious environment that does not present any splenetic intellectual challenges and in which disagreement is downplayed or avoided altogether. The get out of this overwhelming drive for comfort is devastating for speech: Eventually, they founder demanding freedom of speech and start demanding freedom from speech.\nAlthough the author tries not to blame either the correctly or the go forth for the go down in free speech, he does note that the political left has more of a prefatory tendency to assault free speech. He goes on to abduce the work of NYU business prof Jonathan Haidt, who concludes that political conservatives have sevenfold sources for moral norms-traditions, sacredness, loyalty-while American liberals are largely one-dimensional, driven originally by the care ethic, in Lukianoff...