The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things c…

Rowan Atkinson
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ✨ Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other. www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.
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