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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
there's nothing wrong with being on the extreme end of the spectrum when it comes to freedom of speech, imo. like chomsky says: either you support free speech or you don't. even stalin believed in speech he agreed with being free. it's the controversial speech that actually needs protecting.
i mean on the one hand we have people who are willing to kill for their religion. they at least have principles. they know where they stand. we should be just as firm with our values imo.
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Stalin didn't agree with people having the right to speak freely. He had his secret police kill half of Russia for even
hinting that they were disagreeing with him.
And you can say that extremists have principles, but that's kind of a redundant thing to say;
everyone has principles, in one way or another. You shouldn't gauge the strength of someone's ideals by the amount of noise they make, or the violence they cause. Usually, the people who resort to violence aren't even doing it for ideological reasons; they simply want to feel powerful, and fear is an easily attainable means to an end. This is especially apparent in people who kill despite murder being forbidden in the very ideology that they claim to be upholding.