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Many things that seem culturally obvious to us have only been around for a couple generations. Ideals around racism, animal rights, age of consent, death, relig
by dm2 13y ago
Many things that seem culturally obvious to us have only been around for a couple generations. Ideals around racism, animal rights, age of consent, death, religion, are all things that many well-educated people take for granted.
Would you rather have KKK meetings in public or private? At least in public they are inspiring conversation and debate about the issues. Restricting the first amendment would allow for a secret KKK which everyone speculates about and rumors materialize out of thin air, that wouldn't be good.
Freedom from persecution for speaking your opinion (whether right or wrong) is probably the greatest freedom we have. Discussion leads to ideas which eventually leads to progress.
- einhverfr 13y ago> Freedom from persecution for speaking your opinion (whether right or wrong) is probably the greatest freedom we have. Discussion leads to ideas which eventually leads to progress. Sure. But if nationality no longer matters, then everyone else gets a say in how far we recognize this, right? That's my point really. If we are so sure nationality no longer matters and we should be one global culture, are we going to be happy with the tradeoff? I don't think we would. BTW the other is just as valid. My wife is Chinese-Indonesian and she and I have shared what are essentially very foreign views with eachother regarding these sorts of things. I can say without a doubt that American culture in this area is not something that you just show people and they come running to.
- Vivtek 13y agoBut if nationality no longer matters, then everyone else gets a say in how far we recognize this, right? Just as a little sanity check here: could you please define what you mean when you use the word "nationalism"? Because that's not what I take it to mean.