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--- thoughts:society:censorship [2021/06/07 15:03] – Owen Mellema
+++ thoughts:society:censorship [2021/09/07 15:34] (current) – [How much safety is enough?] Owen Mellema
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 Sacrificing a principle in favor of increased safety is surely different than sacrificing things that are essential to our daily life, right? I disagree. There is really no end to the number of principles that can be sacrificed in favor of increased safety.
-In terms of censorship, consider the BLM protests. Many people died as a result of the BLM protests, and much property was destroyed.  If we censored BLM propaganda on the internet, we could make our cities safer. Those who died in the protests would not have died, those who lost their businesses would not have lost their businesses. ((Previously, I had another, much more powerful argument that argued that disenfranchising certain minorities could lead to increased safety for everyone else. Even though my point was to say that this was an awful and immoral idea, I had a feeling people would take it out of context and say I was a racist. I am not a racist. If some of us don't have rights, none of us have rights.))
+In terms of censorship, consider the BLM protests. Many people died as a result of the BLM protests, and much property was destroyed.  If we censored BLM propaganda on the internet, we could make our cities safer. Those who died in the protests would not have died, those who lost their businesses would not have lost their businesses.
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