[epgui]

That is not what I said at all. I said that stability could be seen as one of the main reasons _why_ free speech is important/useful.

[bondarchuk]

Let's try it this way:

1. Do you, or do you not, think that there can be something which is more important than free speech and which leads (among other things) to increased stability?

2. Do you, or do you not, think that if this something is more important than free speech, the consequence of this is that free speech can be restricted for this thing?

[epgui]

1.) yes, and I will give as an example “human life”. I believe killing someone is morally worse, and in many situations more detrimental to social stability (although I wouldn’t be sure how to measure that), than depriving someone of their right to free speech.

2.) yes