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Originally Posted by peter12
Free speech is a bitch. I agree with the notion that we should be allowed to say anything and everything. No sacred cards should be played.
However, it is good to promote responsible free speech that contributes to the good of everyone. Ridicule and mockery only serve to debase civil conversation.
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Agreed. Of course, part of the necessary process is that we all develop slightly thicker skins--but a civil conversation is always more productive than one which begins from a standpoint of absolute right and wrong, in my opinion.
Which is why I find dogmatic atheism a little weird--because to me, atheism is the rejection of dogma.