But I'd very firmly separate 'respecting the opinions of others' from 'respecting the rights of others to have opinions you don't respect'
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Because so often these get conflated & ppl make one of two errors: 1) Thinking they must respect the idea itself to respect the right to it.
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2) Thinking that not respecting an idea justifies not respecting the right to it. These are essentially the same but manifest differently.
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People perform mental gymnastics to support ideas inconsistent with their principles coz they want to support the rights of the idea holders
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But if a principle 1 holds *is* the support of others rights, regardless of their own principles, it's simply a self-conflict. Gymnastics?
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Yes, when people aren't satisfied with saying 'I support your right to do this thing' but feel they must support the thing itself.
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This is the 'right to choice' and 'rightness of choice' conflation I am talking about.
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Not just 'I support your right to wear a burqa' but supporting gender-specific modesty codes in 1 culture that you'd normally condemn.
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Not that Burgas are incendiary! My point on burqas would be that it is an emotionally complex symbol triggering multiple issues 1.
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Ethically, do you think it OK to support the right to wear them but also disagree with gender-specific ideas of modesty?
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