PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nicholas Shackel TI - The fragility of freedom of speech AID - 10.1136/medethics-2012-100628 DP - 2013 May 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 316--316 VI - 39 IP - 5 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/316.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/316.full SO - J Med Ethics2013 May 01; 39 AB - Freedom of speech is a fundamental liberty that imposes a stringent duty of tolerance. Tolerance is limited by direct incitements to violence. False notions and bad laws on speech have obscured our view of this freedom. Hence, perhaps, the self-righteous intolerance, incitements and threats in response to Giubilini and Minerva. Those who disagree have the right to argue back but their attempts to shut us up are morally wrong.