Dewey Lecture Focuses on Free Speech
The 2016 Dewey Lecture, delivered on November 9 by Professor Leslie Green, a philosophy of law professor at Oxford University, explored free speech and morality. During his talk, Green explored the free speech doctrine and suggested ways that right speech can and should be supported while remaining faithful to the principles of free speech.
"The moral right to free speech gives us the right to say things that, from the moral point of view, are wrong," he told the audience. But "having the right to say something does not give anyone a reason to say it. The fact, for example, that we have the moral right, as I think we do, to offend others—to mock their faith, to confront them with obscene imagery—is no justification for doing any of those things."
A full video of the lecture can be viewed above.