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How Free Speech Drives Economic Progress
Censoring certain voices isn’t just morally problematic, it’s bad for the economy, too.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Free speech is usually considered a constitutional right, which is certainly correct. It’s also often discussed as a human right also correct. But the benefits of free speech go further. Free speech acts as a gateway toward human improvement and the betterment of society.
How, you ask? It’s simple: innovation.
Innovation Through Collaboration
Most great discoveries and achievements come not through one person’s sole genius, but through collaboration with others. Take, for example, the one and only Albert Einstein. His special theory of relativity was based not on his own solitary contemplations but on discussions with two other innovators, Marcel Grossmann and Michele Besso. Grossmann’s work in mathematics is said to have greatly helped Einstein. Who knows what would have happened had the latter worked alone?
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âOur forefathers, seeking refuge from religious persecution, believed in the eternal truth that freedom is not a gift from the government, but a sacred right from Almighty God.
On the coattails of the American Revolution, on January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom â¦
This seminal bill, penned by Thomas Jefferson, states that, âall men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.ââ
The 114th Congress issued a Resolution, January 16, 2017:
âWhereas American democracy is rooted in the fundamental truth that all are created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness â¦