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If you don't like the "hate" speech, present a better argument. If you can't do that, the hate speech is simply the stating of inconvenient facts.
by sincerecook 1y ago
If you don't like the "hate" speech, present a better argument. If you can't do that, the hate speech is simply the stating of inconvenient facts.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThese are moral arguments, not the kind of arguments that we can settle by a mathematical proof. Typically it's not that sound arguments shape our moral positions, but that our moral positions determine what we consider sound arguments.
- thomassmith65 1y agoUpon reading this the next day, I realize it could use a concrete example: "We should pass a law to strip all legal rights from, and enslave, everyone who is of [pick some minority group]. Neither I, nor most people, belong to that minority, so most of us will benefit from this slave labor." That's a logical argument. Thankfully, most people today would find it morally repugnant and unacceptable.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThat is a unique ethics basis. "Whoever has the most skill at arguing is morally right."