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It is weirdly common for people to conflate running into others who disagree with or aren’t interested in them with authoritarian suppression. You even see peop
by synu 4y ago
It is weirdly common for people to conflate running into others who disagree with or aren’t interested in them with authoritarian suppression. You even see people going on television to talk about how they have been silenced.
- tialaramex 4y agoBecause it's largely impossible to find out whether people believe nonsense or just pretend to, one should where possible avoid needing to know. If you can set things up so that the consequences for Jim killed the puppy plus either "Jim believes God told him to kill the puppy" or "Jim pretended God told him to kill the puppy" are roughly identical you needn't waste your time trying to see inside Jim's mind. This is trickier with retributional justice. If you think your justice system's goal is to punish wrong doing it's difficult to argue that it doesn't matter what Jim really believed, as if he really believed God was telling him to kill the puppy how can that be wrong?
- synu 4y agoIm sorry what are we taking about? I think I’ve gotten lost, or maybe your reply was meant for another thread?
- tialaramex 4y agoSorry, to me it's pretty obvious that most of these people don't really believe they were silenced when they're on TV shouting about it. But I can't prove that, so, fine, maybe they believe this, we should treat both the false belief and the lying about it the same way.
- synu 4y agoGot it, thanks!