(September 16, 2025 at 10:47 am)Paraselene Wrote: I'm not advocating for the pacifist path. Heck, even Stephen King believed in telling stupid people off when they got too loud with their proclamations. (The Mist, in the store when the religious old bat got too carried away)
But we can't stop them from saying what they want. We can only talk back against their nonsense.
I'm advocating for active state intervention as telling people to fuck of is simply inefficient and unless you're Hulk bigger brother also not particularly effective.
We can't but state can. Well, it can fine and jail them and thus make people more wary of speaking abhorrent crap.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
