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Essays: On Literature, Culture and Travel
Whilst admitting that people have a legal right to speak their minds, the legal protection afforded to freedom of speech is sometimes merely coincidental to the broader morality of the act. To an audience of one like-minded individual, I have every right to condemn Muslims as terrorists, Islam as brutality under the guise of religion. To an audience of millions – some of whom may be cast under the stereotyped category of people I am condemning – I still have the right to do this; but I also have to admit the moral dubiety of what I am doing. ("The Cartoon Controversy: Free Speech at a Moral Price")
She is out there every morning on the shingle, with her dog. A lovely, bouncing border collie, sniffing the sea like it, too, is a live animal, dashing around like there’s no tomorrow. Every time he gets wet, he runs up to her and shakes himself in a windmill of spray. (Speak No Evil)
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