Everywhere, unthinking mobs of independent thinkers wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question enlightened dogma. If violence never solved anything, cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don’t settle them.

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