This would be like arguing that it is acceptable to break the law — Metaphysician Undercover
Free speech is free speech. If you want to whine about people using their free speech to oppose your peddling of pseudo-scientific gene garbage, then you don't care about free speech. You just want free speech for the speech you like, while you ramble endlessly about speech you don't. That's the thing about free speech - it cuts both ways. You don't get to whine about free speech while whining about being called out for peddling discrimination. You can do one or the other, but not both. Frankly you should be celebrating me. If you don't you clearly don't like free speech. — StreetlightX
There aren't that many ways to truly get cancelled on the internet and the community becoming a hostile and silencing force against you… — Qmeri
Speech should be free. It is the evil pharmaceutical industrial-military complex that curtails individual freedom in the UNITED STATES, if you are left-winger, and it is the pasty-assed liberal fuckboys (I've been called that on social media) if you ask the right wingers, that curtails free speech in America, by putting a price tag on it. — god must be atheist
Another snowflake out to limit free speech I see. Just because your feelings are hurt doesn't mean you should try and limit my freeze peach. — StreetlightX
Would have been nice to have started with some basic understandings - bad, bad OP. Or maybe some intelligent questions instead of just kneejerk reactions that presuppose understanding - bad, bad replies. Maybe a few questions, if even this thread is salvageable or worth saving.people being genetically equal — Qmeri
I was referring to this... To me it seems like you are claiming that I'm making a case for racial differences and such to be genetic and its somehow important for me. Technically case is not a claim, so a slight error from me... But the text never says I have ever made a case for such a thing... It just says that I have witnessed some people making cases and how they were treated for such a thing — Qmeri
Would have been nice to have started with some basic understandings - bad, bad OP. Or maybe some intelligent questions instead of just kneejerk reactions that presuppose understanding - bad, bad replies. Maybe a few questions, if even this thread is salvageable or worth saving.
What is the idea behind "genetically equal"? What exactly does it mean? And in this context, what does "equal" mean? — tim wood
"do societal ethical claims have the ethical right to exclude and stop that area of research the findings of which would undermine the very same ethical considerations,
— god must be atheist
I say that societal ethical claims do not have that right. Simply exercising that right instantly suggests that one knows the position they are in is weak and that any research will further weaken said position, thereby acknowledging that that societal claim is likely wrong and should not be supported. — Book273
Here you already assume, by letting it be said by people at the top and the bottom, that we can assign values to genes. Like superior and inferior. Which is nonsense. — Goldyluck
↪god must be atheist having an answer does not equate to instant discrimination, despite your clear belief thatbit must be so. Fear of an answer suggests we already acknowledge the discrimination and that we have to suppress anything which could give support to further discrimination. Still a terrible reason to avoid knowledge. — Book273
For ex, rather one agreed that the last presidential election was stolen or that the election went off fair and square, both sides should have been able to state their opinions on the matter equally. And yet, as we all saw, they were not. — laura ann
The same thing happened with COVID. People actually lost their jobs for simply stating their opinions on the policies and mandates. — laura ann
If, then, being different they are still equal, then their equality is based in some standard not the things themselves. — tim wood
Fair enough. We didn't make hate speech laws is that what you referenced in the Op? Our right is convinced being kicked off twitter is a violation of freedom of speech.I mean no disrespect, but could you americans (I assume), for once not hijack a thread and make it about america? — Qmeri
Can you name anyone who lost their job just for stating their opinion against the federal government's Covid policy? I'm guessing you can't. If there were people who did, it was a very few. On the other hand, at least one person was prosecuted for telling the truth, e.g. the person who managed the Covid database for the State of Florida. School funding has been withheld to school districts in Florida that implemented Covid policies recommended by the CDC.
800,000 people have died from Covid in the US. How are there two sides to that fact? — T Clark
There are several examples of people losing their jobs or being otherwise unfairly maligned for simply stating their opinions on LGBTQ issues, racial issues, religious issues, etc and not just in America but other countries as well. I just picked two examples to illustrate that, that doesn’t mean I want to talk about those topics specifically. — laura ann
These need to be verified. And since you made the claim, you need to verify these claims. I am sorry.
You need to cite some examples of your claim, with names and dates and location which we can verify independently. If you don't, your claim does not have any power of reason or any valid value for an argument. — god must be atheist
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