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It turns out there's a considerable body of prior work on this specific issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• stale2002 9y ago
  And that work is mostly false. The US has extremely strong protections for "intolerant" and "unpopular" beliefs. And it works out fine for us. Freedom of speech, and tolerating everyone, including the intolerant, has worked out pretty well for us.
  • davidgerard 9y ago
    Good to know we've got someone really knowledgeable about philosophy like Hacker News user stale2002 to set those n00bs Popper and Rawls right on their foolish notion that this might in some way be a nuanced question.
  • DanBC 9y ago
    > has worked out pretty well for us. I'm not sure how anyone can look at the fucking mess the US is currently in and say that.
    • throwawayknecht 9y ago
      Even in the US the current conception of "free speech" - both culturally and legally - only goes back to 1964.