THE VALUE OF STATUS DEPRECATING SPEECH The only reason to prohibit status-deprec

THE VALUE OF STATUS DEPRECATING SPEECH

The only reason to prohibit status-depreciating speech is to increase revenues. But one’s right to revenues ends where falsehood begins. Why? Because the function of status deprecating speech is to prevent imposition of costs upon the commons: the assets in the markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, of polities, and of war.

(insults are important means of defense of the commons)