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Tolerating intolerance (i.imgur.com)

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Consider... what went wrong is that no one pushed back on Panel Two using the very same free marketplace of ideas.

Panel One: Fighting for everyone's right to express themselves is fine. Good as it is.

Panel Two: Destroy the bigot's arguments and describe to the public what society will be like if the bigot gets their way. Is that tolerating intolerance?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

In the Republic, book VIII, Socrates identifies as democracy's leading cause of corruption precisely that thing makes it seemingly so beautiful. In a democracy, citizens become inebriated with freedom (Euleteria). By making it the highest goal, people in a democracy end up leading democracy to its downfall.

True ca. 2400 years ago; still true today.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The Paradox of Tolerance

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