The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship. Anti-blasphemy laws not only violate that principle; they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.
每个人都必须能够自由地做出这一决定，这也是反渎神法违反普世人权的原因。言论自由的基本原则是言论必须用其他言论来应对，决不能使用暴力、禁锢或审查。反渎神法不但违反了这一原则，也很容易被滥用，沦为政治权力的工具，让社会变得僵化刻板而变得贫瘠。