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by IGI-111
2887 days ago
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You're arguing for the personal right to act a certain way as I understand it. I'm arguing that such an action has terrible ramifications on a large enough scale. These are not mutually exclusive. There's no reason that we can't construct places where public discourse of controversial ideas is possible yet people are not forced to engage in such. It's certainly something we haven't succeeded at yet, and a hard problem altogether, but we do need it otherwise we're doomed to that one dystopia where "nobody is questioned yet nobody is right". |
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On the contrary, I think there should be far more blocklists.
Opponents of blocklists get themselves wound up over the potential productive conversations that might occur were it not for the overzealous filtering of the lists. But I don't see any positive value in that potential. The overwhelming majority of potential 1:1 political debates never occur, and nobody cares. Why should I then be concerned over potential Twitter debates, which are adversely selected for toxicity?
People who are passionate about the evils of blocklists also have a hard time not coming across like the sea lion from the cartoon.