>The only way to counter bad ideas is with good ones. Absolute rubbish; bad ideas spread through people, thus you need to be able to reach people when you coun

>The only way to counter bad ideas is with good ones. Absolute rubbish; bad ideas spread through people, thus you need to be able to reach people when you counter bad ideas, but people generally aren't controlled by their rationality, they are attached to ideas and stick with them. The idea that if only for example Jewish interest groups had debated the Nazis more, then the Nazis would have been shown to have bad ideas is ridiculous. Some ideas, as Marcuse put it, block the democratic process and this blockage may require apparently undemocratic means to remove.