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So you would be perfectly fine with Hitler at least being elected then, and anyone who tried to stop him would be a bad person?
by quazeekotl 6y ago
So you would be perfectly fine with Hitler at least being elected then, and anyone who tried to stop him would be a bad person?
- imgabe 6y agoSupporting the right of people to participate in free and fair elections does not imply that you agree with the outcome of every election. Can you understand that? The question is where the responsibility lies. Hitler did not elect himself. The responsibility for electing Hitler lies with...the people who voted for Hitler. Where else would you put it? As to whether someone who "tries to stop him" is a bad person, that depends on what you mean by tries to stop him. One of the benefits of not censoring dissent is that we can hear many different points of view, and hopefully choose better ones. So, of course there is no problem with trying to stop anyone by making a better argument and doing a better job of rallying people to your cause. If you mean, "Do I think it's OK to murder political candidates as long as I'm sufficiently convinced they'll be evil", no I don't. Keep in mind that there are people who feel about Obama or FDR the way you feel about Hitler and reconsider whether you want to condone murdering anyone you disagree with.
- summitsummit 6y agobe careful, quazeekotl may be simply trying to waste your time and exhaust you. it's a technique used to have you talk till exhaustion so that you don't have any energy or desire left to discuss the matter in a more important and useful setting as you've spent it all being provoked in a highly nested comment chain that most will never see.