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Why would you ever want to do something about that? That is the beauty of free speech. The humorous and playful gives cover to the toxic and harmful, which in
by ndowlfjd 7y ago
Why would you ever want to do something about that?
That is the beauty of free speech. The humorous and playful gives cover to the toxic and harmful, which in turn gives cover to undesired truths and the champions of the suppressed.
A pair of jeans that are not faded, and are clean and crisp, have not been lived in. It doesn’t mean that a faded and torn pare of jeans aren’t just a facade. But a community that lacks the undesirable is necessarily one that lacks the freedom to be undesirable. That would be far worse.
- kadendogthing 7y ago>That is the beauty of free speech. There is absolutely nothing beautiful about it and there is negative utility in allowing it to proliferate. It actively causes resource usage and damage that is unnecessary and totally avoidable.
- elil17 7y agoAnd that extends to people organizing specific plans to murder others? Because that’s what this warrant says was being done on 8chan