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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It goes just beyond offending someone though. What happens when offending upsets the social balance and it leads to violence? The thing with democratic societies, is that they also tend to be full of factions and special interests. Whether it's political, religious, racial, economic. The biggest misconception about free democracies is that they will gravitate towards harmony. They survive by appeasement and compromise.
"Freedom of speech" is the afterall the same mechanism that allows a radical Imam to put evil thoughts in the minds of youth. Democracy isn't resilient to those types of dangers.
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That's the price of Democracy...if you want to give the state the power and mandate to promote social harmony above all else...you have China
I'm not sure harmony is the expected outcome of Democracy...resilience and tolerance maybe.
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Last edited by Fozzie_DeBear; 08-06-2016 at 06:36 PM.
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