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The idea was useful in the past when humanity was still experimenting with different ideas about morality, forms of government, religion, philosophy, etc. Now
by trabant00 4y ago
The idea was useful in the past when humanity was still experimenting with different ideas about morality, forms of government, religion, philosophy, etc.
Now that we have settled all that there is no need any more to allow wrong think and wrong speech. /S
In seriousness though, this fight is not new at all. The fact that somebody felt the need to state that quote means the same debate existed back then.
- int_19h 4y ago"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal. Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that ‘bourgeois liberty’ is an illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought." - George Orwell, "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)