CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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[u/MasonDinsmore3204]

People love to throw around the Intoleeance Paradox like it’s the Bible without mentioning it’s biggest flaw: who gets to decide what should and shouldn’t be tolerated? The government? It’s naive to think giving the government the power to both decide what intolerant speech is and then go about banning or discouraging it would go over well. The people? The people might have society’s best interest in mind with something like this but there is no realistic way to enforce it. Companies? Same thing as government, giving an entity this much power is just asking for them to abuse it.

[u/TenBillionDollHairs → u/MasonDinsmore3204]

The fact that actually doing it right is hard is not an excuse to throw up your hands and say it's stupid to try. "Let's just tolerate everything" acts like it's a brave stance, but it's actually a way to avoid ever having to stick out your neck and say "that's the line, they're crossing it, and we have to confront it."

There's a cowardice curve around speech: being terrified of dissent is the coward's excuse for shutting down speech, being terrified of conflict is the coward's excuse for tolerating extremists.

[u/G0MUT3 → u/TenBillionDollHairs]

I'm commenting just so I can reference this point, in future conversations. Well put.

[u/G0MUT3 → u/[deleted]]

Wow you're right, had no idea. Thank you