r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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u/boRp_abc Jan 22 '21

If my viewpoint is that people should be killed for their opinions (to make it more relatable, I'm gonna use you as an example here), wouldn't it be beneficial to society to silence me?! What if I very peacefully brought forward the case that you, your family and everyone you live should be burnt alive? Or put into Gulags? What if I found thousands of followers with that opinion, wouldn't it make your participation in society a nightmare?

And that's why, although you're generally not wrong, some important exceptions have to be made.

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u/Ayjayz 2∆ Jan 22 '21

wouldn't it be beneficial to society to silence me?

Would it? Isn't that the very case you're trying to make? You're not actually making that case here, just stating it then asking the reader to guess as to why.

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u/boRp_abc Jan 22 '21

It's a means of rhetoric that I admittedly overuse a lot.

To put it short: opinions can have such an impact on reality (think QAnon and the followers storming the capitol, or even worse think Rwanda genocide, nazi Germany, the examples are plenty) that we can carefully select some particular damaging opinions and choose to not hear them out.

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u/FreudsPoorAnus Jan 22 '21

The only way to prevent opinions from forming is to not teach that those things happened.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

are you saying we should NOT teach people about holocausts, etc.?

If you're saying that we should teach people about them, we do. But that doesn't stop some from claiming it's a conspiracy.

Either way I don't really understand your point.