@PhilosophyExp Not actually sure about that last one - I would just try to reason with someone about their vote - not make demands.
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Replying to @SIN_Notung
@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"...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@PhilosophyExp "You must not wear Jesus & Mo t-shirts", "you must strike 'niggardly' from your vocabulary" "you must not joke about X", etc.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@SIN_Notung It's not simply - it's important to resist "unreasonable", authoritarian demands.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@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"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@PhilosophyExp but I want to argue that one can have good reason to do it - that reason based in the demands of others.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SIN_Notung
@SIN_Notung Okay, but you have to bite the bullet that it might be justified to vote for UKIP (given the viciousness of the criticism, etc).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp@SIN_Notung Maybe the viciousness does give you a reason - but not one that overrides stronger ones for voting against them.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Metamagician
@Metamagician@SIN_Notung I think that's right. It becomes part of the moral calculus.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician I agree with that - also the anti-UKIP demands are reasonable at their core, just unreasonably expressed.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@SIN_Notung @Metamagician Interestingly, smart populist politicians play precisely on the dynamic you're talking abt. Part of the appeal...
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