Freedom and Choice!?
The author (Phillip Pullman) defends the controversial title of his book. But in doing so, he puts a very clear indication on Freedom and Choices pertaining to it. Clearly distinguishing where the freedom of a group stops over the freedom of an individual.
Quoting it below
“No one has the right to live without being shocked.
“No one has the right to spend their lives without being offended.
“Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. If they have to open it and read it, they don’t have to like it. And if you read it and dislike it, you don’t have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book, you can do all those things but there your rights stop.
“No one has the right to stop the writing of this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, sold or bought or read.”
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