3.
I may be as uncivil as I may please and the law will protect me against violent
retaliation
.
I may be naughty or boorish and there is no penalty to pay except the
penalty of being written down an ill-mannered fellow. The law does not compel me
to say 'Please' or to the attune my voice to other people's sensibilities any more than
it says that I shall not wax my moustache dye my hair or wear ringlets down my back.
It does not recognise the laceration of our feelings as a case for compensation. There
is no allowance for moral and intellectual damages in these matters.
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