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Cue people entering the political races with the lowest bars to entry just so they can spew hate speech for a few months

• lancemurdock 5y ago
  "hate speech" has become such an overused, loose term that its losing its original meaning
  • gsich 5y ago
    True. It's mostly a synonym for "stuff I don't want to hear".
  • matheusmoreira 5y ago
    What's wrong with hating anyway? Hate is a perfectly normal emotion. It's okay to hate. A lot of things are worthy of our hate. I think it's strange how people are expected to not express any negative emotions at all.
    • w0de0 5y ago
      I’ll engage, this is an interesting idea. It’s a Cynical idea, in that it advocates an inherent virtue to human subjective experience, even hate - like Diogenes the Cynic asserting public masturbation was fine. So, my response: our emotions have no inherent ethics. They may have a survival value, because strong emotions can compel us to action we may reject if we were rational. Is that - irrational survivalism - really a state to aspire to? Has it any likelihood to induce ethical behavior or advance civilization or make the world nicer for your family? I agree that negative emotions are rather more taboo in America than is healthy. But reflecting on why they are taboo at all, I would rather err on the side of Spock than Worf.