"Legal" is a moveable feast. Laws can be changed. "Hurt feelings" are also a moveable feast. You can hurt my feelings by telling me that I'm crap at trimming my beard, or you can hurt my feelings by telling me that I'm inferior or untrustworthy or a disease-carrying being or a terrorist-sympathiser because I'm black or a Jew or gay or a Muslim. Yes you can hurt my feelings by saying something relatively harmless to me and I might need to just get over myself. Or you can hurt my feelings by using threatening talk or hate speech. Talking about having to hold back on untrammelled free speech just to avoid "hurting feelings" is thoroughly disingenuous. You have no moral right to say things that make me afraid or insecure or feel threatened. If you live in a country where you have a legal right to do that, then your laws are wrong and they need changing. If you can't use your freedom of speech mindful of your responsibility to others, then you don't deserve the privilege of having it.