I’d expel the student if they spray painted “Love” on a building.

Vandalism is vandalism, period, regardless of the shape(s) of the swoops of paint applied.

Vandalism is already illegal.

Virtually all libertarians would defend the legal and moral right of a private university to expel a student who had committed such a crime, and I suspect that most would recognize a public university’s right to do so as well.

This should become a standard question on oral foreign service exams and Congressional confirmation hearings. Anyone who cannot give a satisfactory answer is not qualified to represent the United States of America.

I’ve got an easier solution.

No speech is banned. Your feelings got hurt? Tough!

Speech is anything that communicates a thought, idea, information or emotion from one person to another.

“All speech I don’t like is banned. When I die, I appoint someone else to the position.”

It is simple, I would just sit around all day and charge $100 to consider something. If I don’t like it, it is banned. Also, I am the one who determines what “speech” is.

If you don’t like my solution, all is lost. Everything else amounts to rules as arbitrary as my views.

This will make things really easy. A judge will ask me: “Is this banned,” I will answer, and the case will be done. While my ruling would have precedent, if someone says something similar and tries to distinguish it, there is no problem. That is because, for $100, I will issue a new edict. Also, I would not precluded from issuing competing and conflicting decisions. That is a feature, because it would make it more necessary for me to make more decisions, which would result in me making more money. I might even be abe to make a full time ob of it.

An added benefit: when history is written, I will be considered the best person ever. Because everything else said about me would have been banned.

That sounds like a problem for the violent group to sort out. We’ve seen the weaponization of hurt feelings abound, from college campuses, to human resource spats between co-workers. This goes way beyond merely encouraging the heckler’s veto.