3 ms·
if someone believed cyanide "Tastes Great. Very Healthy. Just Drink it," they would be allowed to say that according to the position you are arguing for. I don
by javert 14y ago
if someone believed cyanide "Tastes Great. Very Healthy. Just Drink it," they would be allowed to say that according to the position you are arguing for.
I don't know why you're claiming I argue that, because in my last post, I pre-emptively explained why I am not claiming that (because to do so would be fraudulent).
Let me reiterate.
The basic principle is: The only time force is acceptable, is in order to undo or prevent someone else's initiation of force or fraud.
You likely don't agree with that principle, but I think everyone ought to. That is what freedom actually consists of, and it's a necessary and sufficient condition for human flourishing.
How does that apply here? The government should not tell someone what they cannot (or must) say, excepting cases where that person is initiating force by what they're saying. Selling someone cianide would be such a case. Disputing whether someone copied someone else or not in a design is not such a case.
- dbecker 14y agoIt's unclear whether you are failing to read the example, or whether you are using your own definition of fraud that you haven't shared. Fraud requires intentional deception. My example is unequivocally NOT fraud, since the seller believes they are telling the truth.