Extreme views? You’d be surprised by how many ppl hold opinions you can’t discuss in polite society. That’s why the internet should have a higher standard of free speech.

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Cool.

Let’s define extreme views in a constitutional sense so that the broadest moral view is codified as acceptable, but polite society is able to coalesce and not be shouted down by a vocal and obnoxious minority.

The majority from what era? The Puritans? The Catholic Church? The Nazis? The Mongols? I think you want a nice tidy answer, but history has shown that no such thing exists for humanity, and given our nature it’s unlikely there ever will be such a solution. The Supreme Court exists solely to protect the fundamental rights of the “vocal and obnoxious minority” from the fascist tendencies of the majority.