I understand why you would feel that way, but consider when that power is in the hands of a Goebbels—and if the power to silence others is allowed, it always will inevitably be controlled by someone of his ilk—and that person then uses it to suppress the voices of “men of goodwill” who expose his deceit because he is claiming they are the enemies of the State, they are the evil ones, they are the threats to society and must be silenced.

We have witnessed that very dynamic play out over the past four years—the State has claimed it has the right to strip doctors of their licenses for not following what turned out to be lethal and injurious edicts, and the State seized that power in the name of the “greater good,” “public health,” and fighting “Nazis.”

It is not possible to institute such power without it being abused, so the only way to ensure people of goodwill are not silenced by tyrants is to allow all speech, as detestable as some of it may be. Good people will expose and humiliate those who are spreading bad ideas—or the latter will be ignored entirely, which is the best way to snuff out the embers of hate.