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.
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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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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @palecur and
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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It's a pretty dumb point, then. Would rather let marginal losers have their marginal loser opinions than hand the right to interpret rights to people who believe that opinions and beliefs are in themselves harmful.
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Sure would be nice to live in a world where 'genocidal subjugation of outgroup is good actually' is a marginal loser opinion instead of an increasingly mainstream one i guess, lmk when there's directions to one and i'll move there
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"Genocidal subjugation of outgroup is good" comes in a lot of flavors other than Nazism. Nazism isn't a particularly popular flavor, unless you are one of those people who thinks that political views well within the democratic Overton window 40 years ago are "Nazi."
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