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Naturally this empathy only self-reinforces itself, if it selectively ignores those who agitate against it. Eg if someone advocates against free-speech, maybe p
by pas 7y ago
Naturally this empathy only self-reinforces itself, if it selectively ignores those who agitate against it. Eg if someone advocates against free-speech, maybe protecting them won't preserve this basic empathy.
And it seems this instability is real, as we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech.
- baked_ziti 7y ago> we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech. In what sense? Legally, for example, we don't.
- pas 7y agoBut we do. In many countries, and even in the US the history of what is and isn't a good trade off to limit speech is a long and still ongoing discourse. Sure, the gov part seems easy, but then people call on FB to filter lies in political ads, and again people want laws to mandate social networks to do this, and so on.
- Dumblydorr 7y agoWhat about shouting fire in a crowded theater? I've had lengthy debates about whether that should be allowed or not, and if we still "have" free speech if we disallow it.
- pas 7y agoThe ever relevant Hitchens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePgiW0Km_0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePgiW0Km_0 (I don't necessarily share his very individualized approach/view.)
- raxxorrax 7y agoProtecting their speech probably preserves it. Giving in to their demands probably not.