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by mistermann 2959 days ago
What if the extreme views may be correct?

And I don't mean that in a trolling way, I mean that sincerely and literally.

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Well, if it turns out that "genocide is actually good" is correct we're all doomed.

Less flippantly, we may not have any special access to moral rightness; in fact if there's one important conclusion of 20th century moral philosophy it's that there's no exogenous moral truth to be found; but we definitely do know a number of things are wrong and lead to moral disaster on a colossal scale. This is why you have to ban racial supremacists. It's happening all over again with the Rohingya.

There is certainly a large band of "extremism or acceptable questioning of the status quo", but anyone running a discussion forum has to be aware that they can't disclaim all moral responsibility for hate spread on it.

> This is why you have to ban racial supremacists.

The problem is, there is far from an accepted common definition (by design, I'd argue) for "racial supremacists".

> It's happening all over again with the Rohingya.

Is this related to online forums somehow or just a reference to consequences?