Just found this piece. Very nice indeed.
Jeff Culbreath | Homepage | 11.09.03 - 3:27 am | #

One funny and contradictory aspect of the case for censorship is that we libertarians never ponder the effects of what might happen when a man puts puts in his mind. Our answer to this charge is simple: if a man has the choice of what he puts in his mind he has the corresponding choice of what he will do with it. To argue otherwise is dehumanizing and reduces a man to a machine without free will or free choice. If ideas are "near total" in their influence then a mind is nothing but a blank slate from cradle to the grave. Taken to its logical conclusion, the case for censorship makes a man a programable robot who's thinking must change every time he's exposed to a new idea regardless of the content. Using the physics analogy only serves to corroborate the censor's disbelief in any power of independent thought other than his own. If we are not machines but moral agents, then the case for censorship is merely a solution to a problem of its own making.
Jim Guiducci | 02.05.06 - 12:23 am | #