Alex Bush

…as well the way it was as it could otherwise have been. But the example in either case was fearful. When men take it in their heads to-day to hang gamblers or burn murderers, they should recollect that in the confusion usually attending such transactions they will be as likely to hang or burn some one who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is, and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of to-morrow may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them by the very same mistake. And not only so; the innocent, those who have ever set their faces against violations of law in ev…

… want to try and get someone banned from speaking at an event, you are an intellectual lightweight. You have no place at the discussion table of intelligent people, because the baseline of being an intelligent person is the ability to hear arguments and perspectives, weigh them up and come to one’s own conclusions. It’s been said a thousand times before but bears repeating: you absolutely have a right to be offen…

Too much ‘out there’ at once, and your unique ideas get lost in a wash of weirdness. But find that balance between the familiar and the controversial and people will start to take not…