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by lordnacho 1545 days ago
Well if we're right about the free and open society being better, they won't vote that way.

Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.
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FinanceAnon 1545 days ago
That's why I think conspiracy theories can be a threat to democracy. They try to convice people that the free and open societies that they live in, are actually not free and open. Some of them can be right (e.g. Snowden leaks), but personally I think what we currently have is better than the alternatives. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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mrjangles 1545 days ago
You might have a point if it wasn't for the reality of the situation and who is pushing conspiracy theories and who is trying to crack down on them.

It is always the people saying how democracy is flawed and we should be more like China that are also trying to crack down on conspiracy theories.

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mannykannot 1545 days ago
> Well if we're right about the free and open society being better, they won't vote that way.

It is entirely plausible that a free and open society is better than the alternatives on several different bases, despite the possibility that it could all go wrong and end up as becoming one of the alternatives. There is no evidence in human history that society has any stable points, let alone that it has desirable points of stability.

> Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.

... it also has elements of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

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