Is human life the ultimate value, or should human life bow to an idea? True freedom is an individual’s ability to explore ideas without fear of harm. After all, if the idea is weak, won’t it be easily defeated by honest examination?

Believing what people say someone said, without reading or listening to the full context, is not exploring ideas – it’s lazy bias confirmation.

If human life is a footnote to an ideal, any life is at the mercy of an ideal – an ideal, which may be wrong.

If human life is less important than exploring an idea without the action of harming human life, the highest ideal (human life) loses value.

If an ideal claims to value human life but celebrates the death of its rebels, who have remained within the realm of ideas, human life has lost.

Human life is the ultimate ideal. Any idea, which claims to prize human life but celebrates the death of a heretic, who has not acted to harm others, betrays itself. That idea is a thief – stealing human life at the expense of its advancement.

You’re not just another, who should be free to explore ideas, even if the idea is wrong on the way to finding the best one.