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Originally posted by dig420@Apr 24 2003, 08:40 PM
why even try to rationalize and defend the indefensible, Colin?
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Because there are various ideologies that always come to heads in these debates. It's quite interesting. Most of the time I feel pretty much on the fence not from indecisiveness but because I can't see one as better than the other and I don't like where either leads.
In this particular one ...
1. How far should we take free speech?
2. How far should we be politically correct?
What kind of society do we want to live in? What kind of society do I want to live in?
Such questions of ethics to me are indeterminate.
As much as I don't want to head down the "slippery rope" back to 1950's era bigotry I also don't want to live in a society where one cannot express their opinion - no matter how intolerable those opinions may be.
This is the same dichotomy of decisions that exists in the holocaust-denial laws in some European nations.
You tell me. What's a libertarian to do?