@Void_Sloth to Lefty [email protected]English • edit-21 year agoIt's not a paradoximagemessage-square85arrow-up1965arrow-down139
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-9•1 year agoYou’re right, it all depends on who is in power, and what they define to be tolerable and what intolerance is in their view. That’s why it’s our moral obligation to tolerate the intolerant, however counterintuitive that may sound.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-4•1 year agoThere is a line, but that line is where intolerant speech crosses to threats or acts of physical harm, either to person or property. “If you offend me, I will silence you.” Vs. “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it.”
You’re right, it all depends on who is in power, and what they define to be tolerable and what intolerance is in their view. That’s why it’s our moral obligation to tolerate the intolerant, however counterintuitive that may sound.
There is a line, but that line is where intolerant speech crosses to threats or acts of physical harm, either to person or property.
“If you offend me, I will silence you.”
Vs.
“I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it.”