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by Latty 1324 days ago
Right, so the game becomes making your viewpoint as extreme as possible to shift the window of the council in your favour. What could possibly go wrong.

Not all viewpoints are equally valid. Just finding the middle of the viewpoints that exist isn't moderate because you can't just pretend that all sides have equal numbers of extremists and that somehow their views automatically "cancel out".
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ErikVandeWater 1324 days ago
> What could possibly go wrong.

Simply stating a council will have diverse views is enough for people to ring the fire alarm these days.

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Latty 1323 days ago
With the context of Elon saying it, yes. Diverse views where the views are all reasonable is one thing, allowing extremists a platform to misinform and radicalise is not. Elon has made it clear he thinks extremist rhetoric such as Trump's should be allowed.
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infamouscow 1324 days ago
> Not all viewpoints are equally valid.

What makes you think your viewpoint is valid?

It's intellectually weak and morally dubious to take such a stupid position.

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