RE: If Only The Romans
December 26, 2014 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2014 at 9:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 26, 2014 at 7:54 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't think democracy has attraction to everyone.
I was espousing my own valuation of freedom of speech in the marketplace of ideas.
Some people, based on their historical experience, also see the damage uncontrolled freedom of speech does to reliability of speech in general in the long run, and see the market of ideas, just like the financial market, is efficient in theory and inefficient in practice in clearing itself and settling on a valuation of what is offered that can be reconciled with fundamental benefit each offering might actually bring.
(December 26, 2014 at 8:15 pm)Lek Wrote:(December 26, 2014 at 7:54 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't think democracy has attraction to everyone.
I was espousing my own valuation of freedom of speech in the marketplace of ideas.
I'm happy that some of you think so highly of China which, in spite of persecution and suppression, has the fastest growing christian population in the world.
Don't worry, They are a smart and decisive people in their better days, and now it appears to be one of their better days. They will yet relegate your pet religion to a cage of its own in an educational zoo of historical predatory antisocial cults.
Incidentally, they have already successfully suppressed several historical instances of christians spreading the word, starting in 4th century AD. Each time Christianity attempted to exploit period of weakened central government, but each time it wasn't alone and was not competitive with native chinese apocalyptic cults which the central government also successfully suppressed. They basically follow the principle that any cult which puts more focus on afterlife than this life is corrupt and evil. So The notion you have things they haven't seen is rather, wishful?
