A younger me would be right there with you arguing these hard-line principles. And older me has seen 20 years of absolute madness spreading across people's mind

A younger me would be right there with you arguing these hard-line principles. And older me has seen 20 years of absolute madness spreading across people's minds and an outbreak of sickness and obesity. An even older me fears this whole thing is coming down because that old assumption that most people are like me--smart! educated! harmless! peace-loving! egalitarian! color-blind!--is flat-out false. Human society is infested with psychopaths who are given free reign to do whatever they want as long as it flies under the radar of whoever is making and enforcing the rules. And some of these psychopaths are busy building tribes by feeding them absolute bullshit and raising angry mobs. Does this mean censorship and the big ban hammer for everything we don't like? You're making that leap. As for myopic, let's turn that back around. How myopic it has been that we haven't been serious about addressing the hate and violence in our societies and have left it gestate, fester, even mutate into an uncontrollable angry mob? How are them free speech principles tasting when 40% of the population is so far gone they'll never be sobering up for a nice quiet little chat about intellectual issues? Have you ever had an in-depth discussion with someone who doesn't believe in evolution, who thinks the Earth is probably 6000 years old, and will flat out tell you that they cannot be convinced otherwise because of their religion. That's some weapons-grade irrationality, right there. You should think hard about what to do with a society filled with people so effectively programmed, should it ever come the point where people are programmed with a more virulent ROM. Society is sick right now. Very, very sick. Enjoy your free speech principles while they last, because it won't be your fellow HNers taking that right away, it's gonna be the angry mob who doesn't actually give a shit. You fundamentally do not want to see what is going on. The fascists are feeding their base crazy pills right in front of your very eyes. Bleach for fuck's safe. Hydroxychloroquine, NO COLLUSION. 19,000 lies. LOCK HER UP! And that mob is. pissed. off. Everyone. is. pissed. off. The president is the leader of a mob. Let that sink in. The President has the write lock on a big section of the voting population and is feeding them utter insanity and is now vowing "total domination" through police violence. We are in deep shit this very moment.