What consequences would that be then? Person A provides arguments for something he believes in, in this case anti-natalism. Person B can the either re...
Are we, though? Then what moral actors' actions are we discussing here? Putin's? Biden's? Those of every individual engaged in the war? That either so...
Inflation is nothing other than an increase in the total amount of currency, thereby reducing the value of each individual unit of currency. The only ...
My point is these are all very different questions to ask, the possible answers to which are all being hopelessly conflated. We can't have a debate if...
This discussion needs some direction. What are we discussing really? Who are the 'good guys' and who are the 'bad guys'? What international law says a...
Russia is simply redistributing wealth through force according to its ideas of what belongs to whom. Given this forum's political leanings one might e...
If we presuppose that hypocrisy (expressing beliefs, but not enacting them, implying underlying motives) is an ethical fallacy, "an eye for an eye" an...
And isn't that exactly what's happening? You disagree with someone's views and therefore seek to get them fired? Seems like a perfectly sound depictio...
I'm not sure what you're getting at. It's not me saying you should have a right to freedom of speech. It's mankind as a whole deciding that freedom of...
What are nazis other than individuals whose views you strongly disagree with? Assuming everyone in the example of moving within the bounds of the law ...
You did. Didn't you want to lobby against people who have neonazi thoughts in their head to get them fired from their jobs? That's actually even worse...
The idea that people should be free only if it suits one's opinions is certainly a hypocritical idea. You give yourself too much credit. I think peopl...
I'm not trying to fit you in a box. We are discussing what liberalism is. Imposing one's views on others under the guise of fighting nazis. Come on. E...
It's kind of obvious that what you're actually doing is being unable to cope with the fact people are having a discussion without you, about topics yo...
That's not a principle that drives liberalism. The principle that drives liberalism is the idea that individuals and governments are inherently unfit ...
Most of your ideas imply you want to be a proponent to individual freedom and expression. However, when you are met with ideas you don't like, you bac...
You'd be neither. You'd be applying the principles your views are based on inconsistently, you'd be cherry-picking essentially. It'd be confused and h...
Introducing dishonesty and more censorship would not strengthen a system. It would weaken it. Didn't we agree earlier that censorship is a sign of wea...
A liberal would certainly not choose censorship, since that betrays everything liberalism stands for. And I don't think conservative and liberal are o...
I'm generalizing here, but liberal today is starting to become synonymous with authoritarian collectivism, characterized by a disregard for individual...
Open discourse has been under pressure for decades, and 'political correctness' (in more honest terms: censorship) is a symptom of that. As such, I wo...
Moved to the Lounge, eh? What a surprise. I guess this discussion about totalitarianism cut a little too close to home for the folks that run the show...
In my opinion, all ideas should be able to be expressed. No matter how bad or repulsive. Of course such ideas will be annihilated, but in open, civili...
That's not a healthy state of affairs. The way to get rid of problematic ideas is to discuss them openly. Thereby its flaws will become apparent. That...
We should not use the term 'political correctness'. It is a euphemism for censorship and thereby it conceals its true nature. It's a euphemism designe...
Certainly. And whatever impressions about it may linger in our minds, they likely pale in comparison to the horror of the historical reality of it. Wh...
Governments are already flirting with forced vaccination. What do they have left to protest for? Gas chambers and concentration camps? Then again, not...
Sadly true. Where it differs is when the very same insecurity that moves individuals to behave that way manifests in crowds - mass formation. I'm not ...
It is expressed through rather extreme reactions to views that deviate even slightly from the narrative. Instead of normal discussion, an immediate es...
I don't think it was the antivax side who displayed a stunning intolerance for conflicting views. I think you should rewatch it, and this time the who...
Well, extreme views are false almost by their definition, so this desire for the use of force to uphold radical ideas is due to the weakness of it - r...
Who knows? Another thing Desmet describes is that this phenomenon of mass formation and totalitarianism (other than classical dictatorships, for examp...
I'll try to explain in a nutshell one of the ideas in the video in linked that relates to this topic: Political issues are guided by narratives, and n...
It's a symptom of totalitarianism. I would highly suggest watching some interviews with Mattias Desmet, a Belgian psychology professor, who explores t...
Why are hunters entertained by hunting? Why do some animals play with their food? We've already established that there needs to be no strictly rationa...
It's not inconceivable that during our lifetime there will come a point where we must fall back on such things - during a war for example. So I ask ag...
Possibly? I tried to draw attention to why such an act is considered malignant when a human does it, but not when an animal does it. Why is it that wh...
If your argument is that law enforcement and militaries siding with the civilians is enough of a safeguard against tyranny, then you must agree that t...
Let's see if I understand you correctly: Part of your argument is that if a citizenry would be in a position where it wanted to revolt, enough members...
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