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[icon articles]Don't Say "Illegal" When You Mean Wrong

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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I find a lot of articles and news sources today that word themselves very strangely. They point out something that is wrong with some political system or other, but they use the word "illegal" to mean wrong.


#pedantry #law #philosophy #politics


[icon articles]It's Better to Want It Than to Need It

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?


#philosophy #politics #freesoftware #userfreedom #consent #ownership #corydoctorow #firesidefedi


[icon articles]Equal Rights to Kids

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were enough men, who agreed with women. And now women can vote. Something like this has to happen with children's rights too.


#kids #children #equality #equity #humanrights #freedom #ageism #paternalims #philosophy #politics #freerangekids #letgrow


[icon articles]Conservative Ageists Tried Censoring Pepper & Carrot

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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It is quite funny to me that we live in the world full with people that contradict themselves whenever possible. Politically Conservative people tend to always bring up "Free Speech" whenever Liberal-minded people disagree with their opinions. Yet they are also very much in the business of censorship themselves. We saw that with Florida's Book Bans and we now see it again with Pepper & Carrot. A comics from David Revoy that was attacked recently by those unable to see people expressing love to one another.


#DavidRevoy #PepperAndCarrot #Art #Comics #MastoArt #LGBT #LGBTQ #Politics #FreeSpeech #Paternalism #Ageism


[icon articles]The Paradox of The Paradox of Tolerance

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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For me personally the word "Tolerance" means something akin to patience. Therefor I don't understand how we arrived at using this word to talk about Freedom. I have already written an article suggesting that it is perhaps a wrong word to use, and something like "Hate" or "Lack of Hate" would be a much better word to describe contemporary politics. But then I keep hearing about this concept called The Paradox of Tolerance which has to do something with the current way the word "Tolerance" is used. But if the word itself is incorrect, how should the paradox make any sense? It is like we are having the paradox of the paradox of tolerance here.


#paradox #philosophy #freedom #tolerance #politics #TheParadoxOfTolerance #KarlPopper



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