A major reason I think the 1st amendment is bullshit is that it protects antivaxxer pseudoscience that actively gets people killed and brainwashing misinformation campaigns that result in outright fascism but not, like, sex workers running business without endangering themselves
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Seriously, it says that once your mind is infected by bad ideas the only two options are death or having brain implants that render you incapable of acting on those ideas And all of us in the real world are so infected and could only have one of these fates in that society
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It's straightforwardly dystopian by most people's standards and I can only read Jemisin as being ironic or at least intentionally provocative with it It's an attempt to mimic the deliberately confrontational tone of the original Omelas story that I'm not sure came off
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