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Is hurting someone's feelings good reason to limit freedom of speech?
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One could say that it does not have to be as extreme as outright ban on any hurtful speech, but the logic behind proposals in usually best explored in them taken to their logical end.
One could also say that only genuinely hurtful speech, as opposed to what we claim hurts us, should be limited - but that is problematic because of how difficult, if not impossible, it is to practically verify the hurt feelings as opposed to the pretense of them.
I would also argue that the only person who can hurt a person is themselves. It is not other people who make us feel hurt when doing something to us, it is how our psychology reacts to that. No one is hurt by the claim that they are ugly - after all, it is just a few random words - but them taking that claim seriously and wanting badly for it not to be true may result in them feeling hurt.
That said, there are good reasons for limiting certain disrupting free speech expressions. One heckler, for example, could halt an event with thousands people participating, and obviously should be shown out. Spammers also can deal a lot of damage online - imagine if someone creates 100 posts an hour here filled with spam messages! And on a funeral, you do not want someone laughing loudly and telling jokes.
There is this notion of "disturbing the peace", where one person does something that poisons the social environment for everyone else, and that can be sometimes something as minor as an inappropriate comment - but it is highly dependable on the context, and hurt feelings alone are not sufficient for treating the speech as such and taking measures to preserve the social environment.
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