Do words even mean anything at all alone? The principle of absolute freedom of speech comes from the idea that words do not inherently mean anything at all. They don't have an inherent meaning. The field that studies the emergence of meaning, loosely, is semiotics. Though, or maybe because the...
It gives people... hope. A chance to look forward in life.
You know, to think that your existence is actually not meaningless.
To think that there's no end and your living wasn't in vain.
In other words, no. It's not completely useless overall. But it depends now... on a lot of other factors...