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Every piece of speech is intolerant to someone out there. The mistake is thinking that any bit of speech is empirically tolerant or intolerant.
by jimbob45 6y ago
Every piece of speech is intolerant to someone out there. The mistake is thinking that any bit of speech is empirically tolerant or intolerant.
- haram_masala 6y agoThis is an interesting line of thought, which I don't know if I agree with or not. It might be worth exploring the contrapositive: "If a piece of speech is tolerable to at least someone, then it shouldn't be censored." And that raises an absurd but still interesting thought experiment: if by some process, someone is able to create a statement that is intolerable to every single person on Earth, would it be okay to censor it?