05-23-2019, 12:10 AM
(05-22-2019, 11:25 PM)Infinite Wrote: Do you would defend the free speech of an Orion recipient? If not, you will understand why the free speech of far right people should not be allowed. Without limits it's impossible the basic civilizatory experience. And seems they will come us to another world war (as in the past). It always end like that.
I believe I already said previously that yes, I would.
Why?
Because I make the basic inherent assumption that people are *intelligent* enough to make rational decisions and they don't need to be babied, coddled, or restricted information because society is afraid it will turn them to the dark side. Shutting down free speech doesn't make negative philosophies go away. It just makes the philosophy more attractive to people because they feel like they are being lied too and suppressed. It just breeds resentment.
In the presence of information, most people will easily reject a negative philosophy, without having to silence them. But far left ideologies are every bit as negative as far right ideologies, but most people are too brainwashed to see it. The main difference is the negativity is more disguised on the left side because people act like they are trying to help when in reality it is just as much a grab for power as the other side. But I don't think most people are polarized far right or far left. I think most people are around the middle, whatever side they fall on. I think it is just a small but vocal minority of far left ideologues and far right ideologues. The extremes of every ideology are usually psychotic and fanatical in nature.
But it doesn't really matter what I think. People are too "woke" to hear any of this. It basically boils down to whether you believe in equality of outcome, or equality of opportunity. You can't have both. Negative leftist neo Marxist ideologies are all about equality of outcome at the expense of equality of opportunity. Oftentimes that sounds nice at first, until you actually think it through.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.