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It's already the case that you can ascribe any quality to any group by fiat and so therefore any criteria for being intolerant can be abused in the way that you
by danharaj 8y ago
It's already the case that you can ascribe any quality to any group by fiat and so therefore any criteria for being intolerant can be abused in the way that you say. There is nothing you can do to preclude dishonesty and sophistry.
- weberc2 8y agoI don’t know; we didn’t used to have such a problem with dishonesty and sophestry. Integrity and morality generally was sort of rewarded with social currency, but that was considered old-fashioned and we did away with it. It wasn’t a perfect system, but I think we may have taken a wrong turn.
- danharaj 8y agoI'm pretty sure Plato had been complaining about this stuff. I suppose we didn't use to have those problens before civilization became a thing.
- weberc2 8y agoTo be clear, I wasn't arguing that never before nor anywhere in the world was there ever issues with sophistry and dishonesty. Plato didn't live in America in the 1990s and 2000s.