If a person has a constitutional right to do something should they use it if it will purposely cause deep insult or harm as in the case of Pastor Terry Jones' stunt?

If a person has a constitutional right to do something should they use it if it will purposely cause deep insult or harm as in the case of Pastor Terry Jones' stunt?
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Of course, but the Supreme Court has held that an individual’s freedom of speech must not be curtailed simply because we find that speech offensive or repulsive. If the truth be known, speech that we find offensive is the very sort of speech that must be protected… from us!
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