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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
He's really not and neither are you - certainly not a concept like the "marketplace of ideas". In terms of the tradition of philosophy you guys are, bluntly, nobodies. You haven't got any credibility because you haven't got any body of work that would entail credibility. Show at least a tiny bit of intellectual humility - I mean, if it was "I'm not convinced by Mill's views about the importance of having free reign for competing ideas for a variety of reasons", fine, reasonable people can disagree. But "this entire philosophical concept is embarrassing! People who think this is true aren't just mistaken, they should be embarrassed!" That kind of statement... you're only embarrassing yourself.
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