https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376 …
This was a good read today, and one I needed; thanks to @mithriltabby for the link.
All this does is push the semantic ambiguity onto words like "harm" and "impose." Which, uh, have been made substantially more ambiguous recently than they were in the past.
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Also, letting groups be the judge of when the "peace treaty" (really, the social contract) have been violated, so they can start a defection spiral? No thanks, I'll let Leviathan do that.
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Any proposed system that lets Nazis go unchallenged or insufficiently challenged because of 'norms' has fundamentally dysfunctional norms and over time will become indistinguishable from a Nazi-friendly system. That's it, that's the whole article.
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the semantic ambiguity is both inherent and inescapable; dealing with it is the unshirkable duty of being human.
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Yeah, but in this case it involves fronting like a problem (how to live together) has been clarified, when it hasn't.
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