"Dawkins is the victim of the kind of social censorship that so worried J. S. Mill". Good piece by @SteveCooke. http://bit.ly/RcDnpG
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@PhilosophyExp thanks for the RT. If only it hadn't provoked such an angry response!
@SteveCooke Have you had angry responses to your piece? (I got some pushback for calling the Daily Mail piece hysterical, so I'm curious.)
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@PhilosophyExp I've spent the morning defending making any claims about relative harms. Others think even using the eg. of abuse was wrong. -
@SteveCooke Ah right. In fairness that is something that would need to be defended, I think. -
@PhilosophyExp I also think there's a wacking great dislike of Dawkins & his style of argument that colours reactions. -
@SteveCooke Absolutely. One strongly suspects that people's reaction are colored by their existing views about Dawkins.
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@PhilosophyExp there's a perfectly valid concern that couching the debate in terms of child abuse can harm victims. -
@SteveCooke Possibility that it might help (some) victims (because it gives people "permission" not to be "victims", etc). Empirical issue. -
@PhilosophyExp that seems plausible. I wish I were more qualified to judge, but my data tend to be ideas more than social facts!
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