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 "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.
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@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. -
@PhilosophyExp such demands *could* be reasonable though, and in that case we should take them more seriously. hence "unreasonable". -
@SIN_Notung And also that it might be justified to execute somebody in the face of international demands not to execute them (because of
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