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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by quotemstr on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:22PM (#18001849)
The freedom to propose ideas that don't offend anyone is no freedom at all. You're arguing that people can discuss among themselves what doesn't matter much, but only an ideologically correct few get to weigh in on topics that really matter.

This is the governing philosophy of the Ayatollahs of Iran, who let lay people debate and hold elections, but who reserve real power for themselves. What you've proposed is no different.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by JoshTriplett on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:39PM (#18001949)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by meowface on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:06PM (#18002088)
I would cite many of the critiques of the so-called paradox in that Wikipedia article as reasons not to give it too much credence. I think it's more something to be considered philosophically rather than any sort of hard rule.

It's obviously true to an extent, like for some rhetoric which directly leads to violence, but a lot of people seem to use this concept as justification to suppress all speech they could consider remotely intolerant.

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