If any person or group makes arrogant, authoritarian, and unreasonable demands for you to not do something, then that's a reason to do it.
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@PhilosophyExp Sure - I just mean when my judgement of the demand finally evaluates to 'unreasonable'
@SIN_Notung So if we demand that women shouldn't be stoned to death that isn't *in and of itself* a reason to stone women to death...?
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@PhilosophyExp If that was an unreasonable demand, backed up with threats, etc, then it might be. However it's obv. a very reasonable demand -
@SIN_Notung And if I demand that people shouldn't vote for UKIP? You probably see where I'm going with this...! :) -
@PhilosophyExp Not actually sure about that last one - I would just try to reason with someone about their vote - not make demands. -
@PhilosophyExp I'm mostly thinking about Draw Mohammed Day. I wouldn't normally do it, but if someone says "you must not do this or else"... -
@PhilosophyExp "You must not wear Jesus & Mo t-shirts", "you must strike 'niggardly' from your vocabulary" "you must not joke about X", etc. -
@SIN_Notung It's not simply - it's important to resist "unreasonable", authoritarian demands. -
@PhilosophyExp I suppose, but a critic of DMD would say "it's not a free speech issue - we're just saying you're a <insult> for doing it" -
@PhilosophyExp but I want to argue that one can have good reason to do it - that reason based in the demands of others. - 2 more replies
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