Mozilla Fires Chief

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The debate on "Equality" versus "Freedom of Speech" is long and daunting. Just when a workable guideline has been drawn for these two seemingly opposing principles, the practical implications can still be utterly dissatisfying. Even silly, like forcing the creator of Javascript (!) to resign from an open-source foundation because of his personal views. Silly, and for us conservatives, very scary.

Personally, I believe there is equality among people, but there is an obvious hierarchy to their ideas. Ravi Zacharias puts it well: "Respect the individual while engaging the idea, so that we keep people in their equality but ideas in their hierarchy." So while you and I have equal value, when you and I believe in different things, only one of our ideas can have greater value with respect to what is true.

Of course this all assumes there is Truth. And if you reject that, then there's not much point in engaging ideas because then we can both just be equally right.

In the end I hope we can all get along. But this notion of having to abandon all our personal beliefs so we can get along cannot be good. It is a cop out. It can only produce equal people who don't believe in anything. Or anything of value.