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I have faith you can read it if you don't intend to mischaracterize.What? Are you saying that someone is not free if their job description doesn't match the actual work, and that they are stuck with that job forever or something? You seem to have a point you are trying to make. I just can't read it.
Nobody glued my eyeballs to the screen. I consume media from a variety of outlets, and I recommend that others do the same - the truth is usually somewhere in the middle. With that being said, I’m not going to cudgel people for not consuming media from a specific source, or only consuming media from another - that’s their deal, they’re free to do so.
People will do what the lowest common denominator dictates them. If they are not taught to think critically and the people around them consume the same, they will too.
And the same they weren't free, that lie took the freedom of others.
Same way they lied and continue to lie about LGBT people and the moral panic they caused. Their freedoms are in question because others are led to believe another lie. They take the freedom of those who believe it and many of those who don't.
Yeah, exactly, there is no accountability. If you are powerful enough, you can be in a position of civil responasbility, either of a public servant or in a position of supposed checks and balances to power, lie your ass off, screw countless others and you're good to goHow many people have died during the Iraq war because the government told them Saddam had WMD’s? Where are they, by the way? Have we found any yet? The government did hang the guy in the end, y’know - by proxy of the newly-installed Iraq government, but still.
Which part of “the government also routinely lies to you and the only way to arrive at the truth, or something asymptotically approaching truth, is to be able to discuss things freely” is confusing? I can’t believe I’m in a position where I have to defend the notion of freedom of speech being a good thing.
Again, lying and knowing you're lying is not freedom of speech. It's libertinism. You're freedom is always limited by the freedom of others, if you're stepping on someone else's, you're going beyond freedom. If you are causing others to live on a lie, you're going beyond freedom, if you are causing others even to suffer from people believing your lie, you are also beyond freedom.