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Your worldview is oriented around what you think is good; people who disagree will necessarily then be working for things you think are more harmful. "What you want is more harmful than what I want" is a basic function of disagreement and isn't an excuse to end discussion.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 14, 2020

I'm always bothered when people argue that I need to be deplatformed because my views are harmful. Ofc no shit you think they're harmful! I think yours are harmful too! That's why we're having this discussion in the first place!

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Right but treating all topics with such acceptance could be uplifting bad bad things. Are there certain people, not topics worth entirely ignoring? I.E. don't go to beer hall in 1930 to hear Adolf speak? An idea around bad faith arguers?

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@idlebell

I don't ignore people just because they are harmful (unless I'm actively trying to protect myself from them directly hurting me, like with stalkers) if I could have tried to have a discussion with hitler and maybe changed his mind, I would have.

6:15 PM · Aug 14, 2020

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I agree with you to some extent, but I think there's an argument to be made that from an optics standpoint, sitting down and debating an idiot on an equal footing grants them a certain amount of legitimacy that may be harmful on net to society.