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> Because reality isn’t so stark as your neat examples of antivaxers and Holocaust deniers. However measures are taken only against those particular, clean-cut
by yoz-y 6y ago
> Because reality isn’t so stark as your neat examples of antivaxers and Holocaust deniers.
However measures are taken only against those particular, clean-cut issues.
In general I’m not fond of slippery slope arguments because the fact that even getting to arbitrate those basic facts is proof that the system is working.
A few people yelling nonsense is a non issue, half of the country though, is a danger to democracy.
I agree with your solution, however that is a decades long plan. We need to survive until then and also have government that could potentially pass laws to make this possible.
- garmaine 6y agoAnd then COVID happens and people want to express a legitimate concern about taking a hastily approved vaccine, but can’t. And then some politician claims ancestry from Holocaust survivors to score political points, but the details seem questionable... only you’re not allowed to question whether this person’s story is real. These issues are never, ever clear cut enough to make all discussion of truth illegal.