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A: "People just aren't paying attention to our fundraising efforts. We need a way to convey the horror of child soldiers to the general public."
B: "Did you say child soldiers?"
A: "Yes. That's what this fundraising is about, remember?"
B: "And children like Smurfs, right?"
A: "Riiiiight..."
B: "So if we show the public images of Smurfs being bombed, maybe they will imagine that children are being bombed!"
A: "Uh, maybe. Don't you think that it would be easier to show images of children being bombed?"
B: "No, silly: children don't have children."
A: *sigh*
B: "Smurfs it is!"
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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