Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Free speech is life itself.
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.