My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on freedom of speech but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

In contrast fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.