Ask Yaron: What is the Difference Between Free Speech and Violence?

In this short segment, Yaron Brook explains the fine line between free speech and violence. Video clipped by Re'em.

Yaron Brook, Radical for Capitalism, discusses news, culture and politics from the principled perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. He is also a contributing author to both Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

[Katsurenjo]

Dr Brook, question for you. I agree that freedom of expression - whether spoken or not, ought to be part of one's secured rights - do you believe fomenting violence, inciting people to harm others, is also part of that? I am leaning towards saying that it is part of that right and only those who actually commit the violence are responsible for their own actions; primarily because once we make an exception, who knows what clever means a bureaucrat might use to penalize someone by shoe-horning that someone's speech into the definition of 'fomenting violence.' What are your thoughts on this please?