It reaches into virtually all areas of social stratification in our culture. It is as if Lestat needs someone to become as he is, and learn to accept it and revel in it, so that he can legitimize to himself, through his victim's enforced acceptance, what he has become. Louis impressed me as the one noble character in the entire story. In perhaps one of the most underemphasized moments of the entire film, Louis confronts Armand, who has told him that he can teach him much that he needs to know. We live in an age where people who do ignoble things have, indeed, learned to live without regret.
Freedom of expression means freedom of expression, period.
You are free to express yourself, but as a consequence you are obliged to accept others' freedom to express them -selves in opposition. And if their opposing opinion decimates the position you espoused, using facts and forthright logic without misrepresentation, so be it. Express yourself, but learn to take your lumps with the rest of us if your ideas are opposed, and especially if that opposition just happens to make mincemeat of a weak position you hadn't thought through carefully enough.