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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by esotericn on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:44PM (#20990059)
I don't really have an opinion on this, but I found your sentence interesting:

> rational, intellectual, level-headed discussion of how, say, their right to speech should be restricted

Isn't that a contradiction in and of itself?

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by vkou on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:45PM (#20990065)
Only from the perspective of one of the two sides in the debate.

The other side thinks that it's perfectly good and proper to not have a rational, intellectual, level-headed discussion of reprehensible topics, and would rather the first side not pull them into it.

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by partialrecall on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:52PM (#20990091)
Are you referring to a particular debate, or debates in general? If the later, I strongly disagree. There are many debates in which both sides argue rationally in good faith.
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