Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
You're making the same disingenuous argument made by those on the other side.

No one is saying the people trying to 'cancel' others don't or shouldn't have a legal right to do it. They're just saying that it is bad for society. In the same way, you can defend someone's right to say terrible things while thinking that saying terrible things is bad for society. I have not seen anyone make an argument that the government should draft laws to disable cancel culture.
There are a lot of things bad with our society. Democratic (ab)use of free speech is low on the totem pole.