Is Vitriolic Speech Justified?

On Speech Ethics in the Age of Social Media

Just because we have a right to say something doesn’t mean that we should say it. What we should say—and how we should say it—can’t be encoded in the laws of a liberal society. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about the ethics of our speech.

It’s a good thing that liberal society protects our right to say what we think. But religious traditions re…