What is it, by defining representation, do we deem freedom of expression to be? By all accounts, expression of thoughts, or the exposing of our desires in such a way, as to bestow upon others an enlightened awareness for something that we cherish, is expression.
Freedom is something that, (though it lacks dimensional form), it can physically touch upon you a feeling of being able to make decisions, to have the right to choose, if you feel so inclined.
Combined, the freedom to express is the ability to choose by some method, (though it matters not what that method is), the conscious choice to create something that did not, in fact, exist until that moment.
Too often, personal opinions of moral conscious stand in the way for freedom of expression to exist. When a person is persecuted in the sense of being ostracized or ridiculed because another person finds their creation to be offensive, the freedom to express is daunted.
When books are banned from readers because somewhere, somebody found the content of that book unethical or immoral, that persons freedom to choose is gone.
When art is taken down from gallery walls, because it contains nudity, (which some feel is shameful), we no longer have the opportunity to do something as innate as making a choice.
Opinions are great, because they give others an outlook of our primordial thoughts. But when opinions cross the threshold of freedom and expression, then our fundamental rights as humans,
to choose by our own personal standards of morale is taken away from us.
Death is the only aspect of life where our conscious minds, on this plane of existence, stops making choices. So, until your body ceases to function, you have the right to choose, to express yourself.
