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The problem is that we'll never evolve (and never would be more than other primates even with our language capacity) if we never ever trusted what others told us about the past, meaning we inherently do need authority to stop lies being spread or else the lies can just as easily become the 'truth'. It's easy to blame the authority as 'evil' but the alternative is far more sinister and in fact a perfect example of how sinister it can be when authorities fail to stop the spread of falsehood-tainted propaganda and other such lies is the very Holocaust in discussion, meaning it is self-evidently necessary to prevent its denial even to justify said prevention. [**]

Your scathing critique is requested.
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Quote what I said about how anarchy censors, if you're gonna proudly tag 'anarchy', for the record I'm an INTP too.

Let me help you out, and post my own content, since you seem short of your own.

I don't know, maybe because it's fucking vile to deny it and nobody in the society except some far-right lunatics want to entertain either the idea it didn't happen or the idea of Fascism somehow being a 'good thing'.

In the end, we are a society ('we' being people in a nation) and your 'freedom to express' should be curtailed when it interferes with what the masses feel safe and content with at a base level (meaning basic level of safety and contentment). I am not even talking about the law, I'm talking about even in the wild west anarchy first amendment to the hilt, never forget that the second amendment is there too and what may just happen if you piss the wrong people off in pure anarchy. So, even in anarchy freedom is curtailed and limited precisely by what the masses feel safe and content with.

The question is where to draw that line, I think stopping anything like Nazism being entertained as a good idea is a solid start. The idea shouldn't even enter people's minds, it's poisonous, we have seen what happens and denying that very brutal outcome is the first step towards forgetting how horrific it is. On the other hand, you as a right-winger may argue that denying the horrors of Soviet Russia and Cambodia should be outlawed, to which I'd agree entirely but do not confuse that mutation of left-wing ideology to be anything resembling what actual Socialism and its values are. In fact, each and every Communist regime has had more in common with Fascism (ignoring economics) than with any left-wing nation that's not Communist, if you want I'd even take you up on this debate but next month as I'm in three atm and busy IRL.

To which you replied:

On the other hand, you as a right-winger may argue that denying the horrors of Soviet Russia and Cambodia should be outlawed,
Yep.

Not to mention the systematic slaughter of native american first nations.
To which I replied:
Sure, I don't support denying a single part of history at all. Truth is absolutely what we should always aim to attain insofar as what overall a society wants the information being relayed as 'valid ideas' within it. 

The problem is that we'll never evolve (and never would be more than other primates even with our language capacity) if we never ever trusted what others told us about the past, meaning we inherently do need authority to stop lies being spread or else the lies can just as easily become the 'truth'. It's easy to blame the authority as 'evil' but the alternative is far more sinister and in fact a perfect example of how sinister it can be when authorities fail to stop the spread of falsehood-tainted propaganda and other such lies is the very Holocaust in discussion, meaning it is self-evidently necessary to prevent its denial even to justify said prevention.
Don't cherrypick and forget the context. Censorship of Holocaust denial is good, yeah, there's no reason to even remotely believe it and quite a few, severe reasons to prevent it. It's a fact, not a theory, not a conspiracy. Anyone who denies it is either ignorant or evil.
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Also, take not who actually puts effort into their replies and tries to understand and agree with the other, you have gone out of your way to make drama and troll me. Instead of replying to me, you decided to quote me, not even accredit it to me beyond a little ** and wind me up with whoever would reply either way. You're being fucking petty, reply to me like a real grown man, woman or genderfluid, this isn't high school.
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the MEEP is not the forum for this discussion
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What is the discussion? Did the Holocaust happen or not? Don't cherrypick and sidetrack. Stick to the discussion and pick your side.
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Censorship of Holocaust denial is good, yeah, there's no reason to even remotely believe it and quite a few, severe reasons to prevent it.
Would you care to reveal any of those REASONS ?
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What is the discussion? Did the Holocaust happen or not? Don't cherrypick and sidetrack. Stick to the discussion and pick your side.
the SCOPE is CENSORSHIP.

Holocaust denial is merely one small tangential peripheral example.
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I quoted precisely where I expanded on the reasons.

The Holocaust happening is the epitome of why Fascism is toxic and why enabling 'fake news' (it was a term way before Trump used it) is detrimental to us all firstly as individuals (we waste time and energy battling the lies, slipping up at times and buying into them) and secondly as a society if said lies are solely associated with a devastating agenda.

There is absolutely no reason to deny the Holocaust. None. Not one. I am someone who researched flat earth theory, 9/11 being an inside job etc I do not dismiss conspiracy theories for being conspiracy theories, I approach always with an open mind.

The case for Holocaust denial is only ever propagated by white supremacists who have never seen or understood the irrefutable evidence involved. There is literally everything; bodies, diary accounts, records, photos, several independent testimonies all 100% adding up chronologically. There is not one single iota of basis for the denial. I know there isn't. I guarantee you there isn't. 

The only thing it has is 'but what if'. The only agenda behind it is to push forth Neonazi, pro-fascist ideology. There isn't any other motive at all and as I said, if somehow that wasn't the motive of a certain duped ignoramus who believes in it, then they are living proof that it can spread to minds like a virus and needs to be stamped out.
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It was the only example in the discussion we had. You're the one broadening to absolutism here.
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you decided to quote me, not even accredit
I was actually planning on steel-manning your position.
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Did the Holocaust happen or not? Answer the question.
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Did the Holocaust happen or not? Answer the question.
Why are you asking me ?

I wasn't even there.

I think the REAL question is, why does it seem so important to you ?
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It was the only example in the discussion we had.
Nope.

I'm pretty certain someone somewhere mentioned the slaughter of the native american first nations.

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It seemed as though you were using the EVENT as some sort of spring-board to drive home the essential nature of AUTHORITARIAN CENSORSHIP GENERALLY.

Were you perhaps instead suggesting that this one specific piece of information should be censored alone and never anything else ?
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If you're too weak-minded to even back the conclusion that the Holocaust happened, you're not somebody who can sit there calling me a coward if I just click the exit button on this conversation right now.
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Sure, whatever, 60 million jews were slaughtered by nazis.

Why is this slaughter somehow special or sacrosanct or more deserving of denial censorship when examined from a historical context veritably jam-packed with slaughter ?
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Sure, whatever, 60 million jews were slaughtered by nazis.

Why is this slaughter somehow special or sacrosanct or more deserving of denial censorship when examined from a historical context veritably jam-packed with slaughter ?


geee i realllly wonderrrrrrrrrr whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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the idea is, that truth should prevail if there is an open market place of ideas. we see things like covid misinformation being spread by conservatives, but if a person is reasonable, the truth prevails. all we can do is hope the majority follows the truth.... and i think human nature is such that the truth tends to prevail when it matters most. 
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The unique thing about censoring Holocaust Denial, in terms of how to justify it is that when someone says something like:
but if a person is reasonable, the truth prevails. all we can do is hope the majority follows the truth.... and i think human nature is such that the truth tends to prevail when it matters most. 
You can point out that in no shape or form were the brains of Germans during Hitler's rise drastically different to the rest of the species, meaning that they were humans with extremely similar average capacity to reason as all other human cultures. Instead, the variable that caused the utter catastrophe that followed was the variable that we have to stamp out interacting with said average/constant.

Think scientifically about it, come back to me when it hits home.
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Why is this slaughter somehow special or sacrosanct or more deserving of denial censorship when examined from a historical context veritably jam-packed with slaughter ?
geee i realllly wonderrrrrrrrrr whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Feel free to present a REASON as soon as you identify one.
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I can't figure out what thesis is under discussion here.
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I can't figure out what thesis is under discussion here.
THBT: WW2 ATROCITY DOES NOT JUSTIFY AUTHORITARIAN CENSORSHIP
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I see.  So, do US citizens have a First Amendment right to make up lies about  well established historical facts?  Yes.  The government may not restrict speech just because  that speech is evil or motivated by irrational prejudices against unpopular groups of people.
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So, do US citizens have a First Amendment right to make up lies about  well established historical facts?  Yes.
I think that a national law should be passed just like the one in Texas. It would say that any civilian can sue somebody for lying for $10,000.

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I see.  So, do US citizens have a First Amendment right to make up lies about  well established historical facts?  Yes.  The government may not restrict speech just because  that speech is evil or motivated by irrational prejudices against unpopular groups of people.
That covers the legal front.

Do you have any opinion on the moral front ?
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I think that a national law should be passed just like the one in Texas. It would say that any civilian can sue somebody for lying for $10,000.
That would only and could only apply to PROVABLY FALSE statements.
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Yes, my neighbor says Trump won the last election, so I could sue him for $10,000 plus lawyers fees.
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Yes, my neighbor says Trump won the last election, so I could sue him for $10,000 plus lawyers fees.
Do you have access to raw ballot data ?
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I could make myself an overnight billionaire off of Trump alone

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I called it evil- that is a moral judgement.