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To add to your point: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels tha
by Crito 13y ago
To add to your point:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken
- pekk 13y agoWe seem to be implying that this means we have a specific obligation to defend all scoundrels and all terrible propaganda movies, when in fact that isn't the case
- Crito 13y agoThere is an obligation to defend all scoundrels when their rights are threatened, though obviously not otherwise.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoIn that there is an "obligation" to defend our liberties there is an obligation to defend attacks on scoundrels insofar as such attacks strike at fundamental freedoms. Scoundrels are the easiest targets but denying them of freedoms ultimately denies everyone of those same freedoms.