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> The world needs everyone to speak about every topic. If we all self censor then only the extremists will be speaking. actually stallman was one of the extrem

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• roenxi 7y ago
  Stallman was extreme, but practically speaking he has never had any power and never tried to gather any. His extremism is characterised by pedantically talking about the logical conclusions of actions and working strictly within and through the legal system to accomplish his goals. That is a type of extremism that is very uncomfortable when it is used against something held personally important, but it is exactly the type of extremism that we want more of. Organisers of extra-legal justice mobs are the sort of extremists we can generally do without.
• h0h0h0h0111 7y ago
  I think that's fine though. Extremists exist to help the rest of us work out which shade of grey looks right to us.