BusyTarpDuster2017 said:
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Stupid bill. Nobody wins by banning ideas.
"There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped." G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Marxism is that thought.
Nobody wins by banning ideas.
Maybe authoritarians.
Wished they could have banned the ideas of..
Slavery
Nazism
Marxism
Communism
etc.
before they became reality.
At some point, before they became reality, these realities were just ideas in some misguided persons mind.
That's not how free societies operate. That's how statists operate.
Have you considered that unlimited freedom might yield worse results than statism?
I have considered that freedom, and rights, are not unlimited. A free society is always better than an authoritarian idea-banning state.
Always.
You disagree, I get that.
So, you would support schools being able to teach the idea that slavery existed because of the genetic superiority of whites over blacks? The idea that violent islamofascism against the West and its citizens is a just recompense for the West's imperialist oppression? The ideas of NAMBLA which extols the merits of man-boy love?
Sigh. I don't support banning ideas.
What is it with this mindset that says "being for the freedom to do a thing is the same thing as supporting that thing"?
The LP is full of people who join because we support their freedom to do whatever it is that gets them tossed from polite company, from the company of people like you. Too many of them then get pissed at some other variant of freely expressed humanity and either try to run Them off or leave because we are too accepting of Them. Crazy because freedom is not just for me and what I believe in but also freedom for you and your freak flag.
If you need the force of government to win your argument maybe you need a better argument.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat