This enables us to eg, respect a gay man's right to be celibate coz he thinks gay sex is a sin without respecting idea that gay sex is a sin
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If we have to respect all ideas as well as the right to hold & express all ideas, we end up either respecting horrible ideas or...
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...deciding that only ideas we like can be expressed.
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Or 'respect' no longer has any meaning coz we're respecting ideas we think true, false, ethical and unethical.
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I thought more. I understand your point of view. I disagree about its usefulness in the outcome stage, so why use it?
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It's easy to "get" but that differentiation opens the road to what we have now, "alternative" news, climate-science deniers et al.
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To respect "the opinions" is an assumption that the other has a right to it, otherwise, it would be open to challenge, so why separate?