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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Jun 2020

    If you advocate principles like reason, due process, and free speech, you'll be attacked by extremists as if you were on the opposite side. In fact that would be a good definition of extremism: policy that can't survive exposure to reason, due process, or free speech.

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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Jun 2020

        You are on the opposite side, but not of the line they claim. You're not on the opposite side of the line separating them from their opponents, but of another orthogonal line separating the reasonable from the unreasonable (which includes many of their opponents as well).

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      2. Arvind Nedumaran‏ @arvindamirtaa 22 Jun 2020
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        There was an idea being floated around. A 3 month cooling period before firing someone over ANY social media “scandal". The idea was if it wasn't important 3 months later, it probably wasn't all that important to begin with. If it was, it probably is. Your thoughts on this?

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      2. Mehdi Yacoubi‏ @Mehdiyac 22 Jun 2020
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        “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.” ― Bertrand Russell

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      3. AlphaJellyBean1‏ @Bean1Alpha 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @Mehdiyac @paulg

        When religion & politics travel in the same cart, they believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong- faster & faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

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      1. behind curtain‏ @ChanSamorai 22 Jun 2020
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        You can't use reason with extremists, your only chance is to use emotions first.

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      2. Tatenda Chikaka‏ @kazocorp 22 Jun 2020
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        Moved to the UK from Zimbabwe after college thinking that I was finally going to live in free society after being born and raised in Mugabe's dictatorship. Its alarming how western nations are becoming self-imposed dictorships were silence is the golden rule of social survival.

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      3. john sung kim‏ @JohnSungKim 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @kazocorp @paulg

        At least you’re not in San Francisco. Lots of highly educated people here pretending to believe in pseudo-biology and apologizing profusely for their existence.

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      2. The Other Side‏ @guelo 22 Jun 2020
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        Is "only people who hold my beliefs are reasonable" a reasonable position?

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      3. Glenn Carey‏ @GlennCarey1973 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @guelo @paulg

        No. But if your beliefs can't change despite changing evidence then your beliefs aren't reasonable. And if you are not open to new evidence challenging your beliefs then you are not reasonable.

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