The reason it's good is that it allows ppl to articulate who they are as well as their views on the rest of society.
I think that would be dangerous. It essentially comes down to a 'But I'm right so I can express my beliefs. You're wrong so you can't.'
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it does, and i agree that it's risky. but i wonder if the way such classifications are made could be made less arbitrary … somehow.
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I'm not sure how. Ppl have the right to be wrong. The world is not 6000 yrs old but ppl must have the right to say it is. Then we respond.
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Or we get bizarre situation where a marginalised group can express beliefs but not a dominant one & Muslims can be homophobic but not Xtians
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yes i agree that any number of odd constellations of rights and wrongs is conveivable in that direction but that doesn't rule it out for me
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impulses i got out of this conversation so far: – the freedom of not having to listen – the role of force – symmetry & context-dependence
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