Individuals are terrible at reasoning. Only in large groups with vigorous debate does reason hone in on the truth. Which is why we need desperately to maintain institutions dedicate to free speech and inquiry and fight fervently against recent encroachments on those principles.
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We don't need to fight for "free speech" - we need to fight against a set of lies that has hijacked truth discovery. Content matters and the output of the truth making institutions matter. The process by which you get there is unimportant as long as it works.
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People are pretty bad at discovering faults with their own arguments, which is why vigorous debate is good. Others are motivated to refute their theories. I don't expect individual geniuses to arrive at the truth without disputation.
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That argument is about arriving at truth. It argues for free speech as a tool for achieving that goal - which is the right way to look at it As a tool it's hackable though - which is what progressivism evolved to do Specific types of speech suppression gets better truth finding
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