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> Replace “doesn’t make sense” with “isn’t competitive.” Is your correction supposed to be an improvement? I mean, the statement "If exceptionalism is a ficti
by barumi 6y ago
> Replace “doesn’t make sense” with “isn’t competitive.”
Is your correction supposed to be an improvement? I mean, the statement "If exceptionalism is a fiction, freedom of speech isn't competitive" makes even less sense. It makes no sense at all to talk about freedom of speech incurring a cost. There is absolutely zero cost in not persecuting anyone for having a different opinion.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> There is absolutely zero cost in not persecuting anyone for having a different opinion Of course there is. If anti-vax and anti-mask advocates could be silenced by the state, public health would improve in the short term. Freedom of speech is effortful to maintain. It takes effort and self control for a society to tolerate opposing views within itself. Forgetting this risks the freedom itself.