Free Will and Speech, Sometimes It’s Best Not to Horn In.

Free will may well apply in the quiet of our own home or closet, but it does not discharge us from the responsibility of knowing what we’re saying, why we’re speaking, and that what we have to say is well reasoned and reasonably supported. While the freedom of speech may well protect our ability to speak, speech is nothing more than air expelled that carries sound. Falling upon deaf ears, or as music to a tin ear, most speech is nothing more than the smacking of someone’s lips together, providing them self applause (in other words, people like to hear themselves speak.) That is not to say haughtily that I haven’t spoken out in ignorance once or twice, but it does make me think that my own trumpeting at times is best played muted.