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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by golemotron on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:12PM (#32681524)
The thing Popper misses is that once you rationalize your own intolerance, others will rationalize theirs, missing the nuance of his limit.
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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by dleslie on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:30PM (#32681789)
He advocates to be intolerant of those who refuse engage in rational argument and those who opt for violence.

The nuance is in the limit. If a person, in their intolerance, is resorting to violence towards those that are not doing likewise, then they are in the wrong. Even if they believe that they are abiding by the limit when doing so. Rational argument should always be the preferred course of action, and intolerance and violence only as a bitter last resort.

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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by golemotron on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:39PM (#32682809)
People miss the nuance and become intolerant even when violence isn't on the table.
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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by dleslie on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:35PM (#32683593)
Of course, but that doesn't mean they're unwilling to talk, and it's only when they cause violence that we should be intolerant of them.
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