I've got the sense that myself and a lot of my friends hold opinions that would hurt them if exposed to public view, which makes me feel like we're some hidden group of 'no limits' curiosity. But this must not be new - throughout history,
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yes they invented the £(_(&ing modern world
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I wonder how much more quickly our progress would be if we didn't believe we could and should coerce others into holding certain views.
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I would like to believe so.
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there are definitely game-theoretical attractors for how groups meet in private. bet some of these discussions occurred in the "cults" of the ancient world, or among senior members of more monastery-shaped orgs. in the west the galileo types absolutely had a while like this
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"Though ultimately he never published his detailed arguments for sexual liberty for fear of the odium they would bring on his general philosophy, Bentham felt compelled to think them through in detail, to write about them repeatedly and to discuss them with his acquaintances."
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Yes. Philosophical dialogues were often written between two fictional characters to allow the writer an out. "I'm not an atheist, but this character in my story is!" Also look up Leo Strauss who argued there are lots of esoteric meanings in ancient texts.
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To continue on your example, check out the dialogue Erotes, "Affairs of the heart", which is a debate between two young men on whether it's better to love boys or women. Gay intellectuals have been picking each other up with it for centuries.
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yes, but with a tighter orbit of the centrist position. i.e. "yeah man, homosexuality shouldn't be punishable by death. it might not even be a sin?" "quiet oscar or you'll be excommunicated."
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Yes, philosophers for hundreds of years spoke elliptically for precisely this reason https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Between-Lines-History-Esoteric/dp/022617509X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=between+philosophy&qid=1569450128&s=gateway&sr=8-1 …
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