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Sadly, the man who first noticed and promoted this practice died before the medical community finally accepted his ideas... Poor Ignaz! Note the screechy ire w
by stcredzero 9y ago
Sadly, the man who first noticed and promoted this practice died before the medical community finally accepted his ideas... Poor Ignaz!
Note the screechy ire with which he was pushed around for his dissent and basically destroyed. This is one of the dark corners of human psychology, which we need to look out for and prevent. This is why Free Speech is vital in spirit, as well as in law. Sometimes it's the unpopular idea which has value.
- pbalau 9y agoI am not really sure Free Speech (or lack of Free Speech) had anything to do with what happened to Ignaz. It looks to me that he was allowed to say whatever he wanted to say and was driven insane by people not believing what he was saying.
- stcredzero 9y agoBecause of the "consequences" part. (This is the stupidest thing Randall Munroe has ever said.) https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ Because he was so successfully un-personed, and it was basically because he was hurting people's "feels." If that's the way one does "Free Speech," it's just crappy. Get your hands on Manufacturing Consent -- If your press is technically free, but it still fits the propaganda model then it's not really free. If society supports free speech within the law, but huge swathes of private life extract huge consequences, it's not free speech. In that case people are being suppressed, not convinced, and both good and bad ideas are being suppressed. That kind of society is authoritarian, not liberal.