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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
Lies are only harmful to the stupid. Those who can't think for themselves or allow emotion to trump logic.
If you start limiting the spread of (mis)information, you start to slide down a pretty slippery slope and inevitably valuable and important information will get caught in the same net. You mention the Nazis as examples of people that should be censored, but remember the Nazis achieved the control they did in part through censorship. All information contrary to Nazi views was destroyed and censored. Censorship can be just as dangerous as misinformation.
Society would be much better served by trying to limit the stupid. Education, civil and rational debate, and the free and open exchange of ideas is the best defence we have against them. You think anyone that engaged in any one of those activities in regards to Kirk Cameron would take him seriously?
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How can you define belief as lies.
Is Kirk Cameron lying, or is he promoting his beliefs?
You can Censure one, you cannot do both.
As an enlightened society we have no right to dictate to one what he should or should not believe on a personal level.
Hiding behind the concept of labeling somethign that you don't believe in as a lie is the sign of a serious breech in societies laws.