Cherishing and respecting diversity

Eugene Tan, assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes that the right of religious freedom and free speech is not a licence to offend others, but asks if civil society, which has a key role in inculcating self-enforcing values and norms that would sustain and enhance social harmony, be able to ?respect and safeguard the rights of those who hold views - reasoned and substantiated - that are at odds with conventional orthodoxy??