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"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." Alfred Whitney Griswold It is not your or Facebook's job to censor people. Btw. Sweden made most of
by StreamBright 6y ago
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
Alfred Whitney Griswold
It is not your or Facebook's job to censor people. Btw. Sweden made most of the things work what this particular group is asking for (no masks). Do you want to ban Sweden too?
- ceejayoz 6y ago> "The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." Weird how "let's not send the Jews to the gas chambers" didn't catch on in Nazi Germany. Good ideas sometimes get swamped by bad ideas pushed by effective people/propaganda. It's quite clear from human history that good ideas are neither a sure weapon, nor a fast one.
- jariel 6y ago"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." ? In the commons, there is limited ability to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' ideas. Among the crowds, the craziest ideas usually win. Individuals are intelligent, but crowds are dumb. Most people who push for ultra freedom of expression think of it in intellectual terms, you know, people having reasonable discussion, but it's not that, it's yelling, cursing, death threats, crazy ideas and 'actual racism' (and I mean the bad stuff like 'kill all those XYZ people, they are cockroaches').
- sfkdjf9j3j 6y agoThis assumes people are "debating" in good faith, with the goal to reach an objective truth, which they are not.
- seneca 6y agoSo you understand people's unstated motivations and get to ban them from speaking based on that?
- seppin 6y agoNo, but if only one side is actually debating and the other is just trolling for reactions, there's no possibility for "good" ideas to ever even meet bad ones, much less defeat them.