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by Draken93 1981 days ago
Thats exactly what Karl Popper says. We should listen to them, aslong as society is strong enough to defend a tolerant society against intolerance.

The question is: When do we reach the point where the defence starts to break?

You could argue that that point is reached when terrorists storm the capitol.

I don't know if we reached that point already. What I do know: If we wait for too long, we reach a state of no return.

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The answer is: we need to use as much violence as is necessary to suppress the violent actions, and then revert back to tolerance.
I’m so glad people like Karl Popper didn’t write the constitution.