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Reader Views on the Role of Taboos
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Last week I asked readers, “How should liberal democracies utilize or eschew taboos?”
Replies have been edited for length and clarity.
We in liberal democracies have a fondness for countercultural expression and norm challenging that can seem paradoxical—if so many of us come to love a rebel,