When did I say it was moral? What are you even talking about? At no point have I tried to “high road” this. I simply agreed that another commenter was being castigated for an admittedly sound logic. That’s it. I’m sorry that has you so wound up, because you think that by somehow recognizing that, it precludes my…

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Be done all you want. I’m not your ally. I never claimed to be. I follow the logic, and compare it to reason. That’s it. I do it because I find philosophy fascinating. I have not and will not take any “side” and thus I have not been and won’t ever be an “ally”. To anyone.

That’s a bit uncharitable, but I’ll take it. I didn’t need to call people “fucking children”. I find the reasonable conclusion (as reached by many profound thinkers, throughout time) that “hate begets hate” as an extremely simplistic concept that requires no further thought. For that reason, I petulantly derided…

No. I’m implying they hate anyone they consider as “others” because they consider them as “others”.
So why is that? Do you honestly think its about pigmentation? It’s about culture, and opportunity, and perceived injustice, and fear of the unknown, and a whole host of dumb bullshit. In short: people will use any excuse…

What are you even talking about? When have I brought up my feelings? When did I ask anyone to put aside righteous anger? I +1'd a comment that acknowledged the logic of another comment. That’s it.

I don’t see the correlation? Just because you have REASON to hate someone, doesn’t make that hate any more right. It was Jesus who said to turn the other cheek, after all, and he wasn’t even talking about hate. Just reason. When someone attacks you, it’s hard to offer them the opportunity to do it again. Some may even…

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Oh, most definitely! The entire thread is about my vested interest in online discourse, regardless of my own involvement. I like to see the output of discussions. I find it absolutely fascinating.

Yeah, that’s my takeaway. Guy comes in and speaks reason to enraged hatred, and people defend hatred as if it refutes said reason. Fucking children, with no sense of how their actions have effect.

Thanks for helping prove my point.

And, like clockwork, we have people dismissing comments out of pettiness.

Here’s a link to that thread, in case anyone was wondering.

Sometimes when someone replies to you, it’s not for you. This has been a contingent basis for my whole discussion on this topic.

That take is a specific refutation of the values of Freedom of Speech (as a concept, not the US amendment). This has been discussed over and over again by thoughtful philosophers, and politicians, and the end results always errs on the side of “everything is okay to say, we trust that people can get a reasonable…

As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing to support that:

That still doesn’t help when the dismisser has made an error in judgement, or has been vindictive.

It’s not that I distrust you, it’s that I distrust people, as a group.

It applied to the office full of full-time employees that I worked with. That’s how I even found out about it, because one of the devs had a Dell laptop, and he was getting grilled on why he wasn’t using a chrome device.

Were we talking about what is and isn’t allowed? You have the button. Of course it’s allowed.