Oliver Wendell Holmes,the Supreme Court justice who famously compared unpopular political speech to falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theater,ultimately came to believe that
A) unpopular political speech is actually more dangerous than shouting "Fire!" in a theater, so the comparison was inapt.
B) neither unpopular political speech nor shouting "Fire!" in a theater is actually all that dangerous.
C) unpopular political speech is as dangerous as falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theater, but the two offenses should be punished differently.
D) unpopular political speech is as dangerous as falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theater, but shouting "Fire!" in a theater is in fact protected by the Constitution.
E) unpopular political speech is not actually as dangerous as falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theater.
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