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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 19

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Lotak

    Well, yes. We need to be able to separate arguments about whether organisations have the right to be sexist etc from criticisms of whether they are being so. Same principle with no-platform policies. As soon as you criticise one, ppl will tell you its their right.https://twitter.com/LotakX/status/986896546548633601 …

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    Lotak @LotakX
    Replying to @HPluckrose
    Fundamentally, I don't have a problem with this policy. A private business can choose to admit whomever they want. What I don't like is that if the shoe was in the other foot and it were (was?) women getting turned away, I suspect there'd be uproar and cries of sexism.
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 19

        I wrote a thing about the right to choose not being the same as the rightness of choice. https://conatusnews.com/red-flags-fallacies-3/ … This is the same principle. You may have the right to do or say something but this doesn't require everyone else to think what you do & say is right.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 19

        'I have the right to say that' does not answer the question 'What justification do you have for saying that?' You can always say 'I don't owe you a justification,' of course but we need to recognise that having the right to do something doesn't justify it ethically.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 19

        I see this most with freedom of speech. People say 'Freedom of speech is about the *government* not having the right to interfere with speech' to justify censorship, banning, deplatforming and obstructive protests which prevent speech that other people want to hear from happening

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 19

        But, in reality, 'It's not actually illegal' is not an ethical justification for anything. Very many unethical things are legal. The government only punishes disloyalty in the form of treason. This wouldn't make cheating on my husband or betraying a friend's confidence acceptable

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