yeah, the first amendment trumps niceness. that s the virtue that the founders wanted to protect. there is good conflict and bad conflict. we know what bad conflict is. we need good conflict in the political system, the collision of ideas because that produces the building blocks of solutions. at a super collider, the building blocks of matter, we need that because that helps us compromise and come to peaceful solutions. i nodded along because i wanted to be smart about go ahead. we are a society desperately in need of more civility. that s it. bottom line. if we can t enforce certain rules around behavior, we are no better than the pack of animals that the movie the lion king. i think about that behavior, right? tone and how people present themselves in certain public forums is important. then i look at the ruling from the massachusetts supreme court and i think they got it right and wrong. i care about free speech, but