"Describing an action or an event as the “consequence” of speech presupposes that there is some causal connection between them. A central issue in any debate about the limits of free speech is the nature and the imminence of the causal connection between speech and its alleged consequences…. In actual social situations it is impossible to isolate factors and determine their contribution to effects. Such control is extremely complicated even in a scientific laboratory." | Quote by: | |
Source: | "Incitement and the Limits of the Law," in Censorship and Silencing (Robert C. Post, ed) 1998 |
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