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Topic	Unite the Right people are getting their pictures shared on social media
Mal_Fet 08/13/17 6:29:00 AM #28:	SGT_Conti posted... joe40001 posted... Kineth posted... Contrary to what the right likes to think, the most virtuous ideas will not come out on top Wait, why not? Because virtuous ideas are hard and people tend to take the easy way. It's so much easier to hate and blame everyone else for your problems, and far less so to take responsibility for yourself. This stance has decisively been disproven by history. Was the medieval period not a major improvement over the dark ages? Was the Renaissance not a major improvement over the medieval period? Was the Industrial boom not an improvement over that? And so on and so forth? Are we not more enlightened now than we were 100 years ago? 50 years ago? 20? The only places where society regresses invariably happens in places where only certain viewpoints are tolerated and the rest are harshly penalized. See: Iran after Khomeni, The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Post-Ottoman Middle East, etc etc etc. --- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell <cite>Mal_Fet posted [p:884690005] in Unite the ... [t:75665928]...</cite> <quote><cite>SGT_Conti posted...</cite> <quote><cite>joe40001 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Kineth posted...</cite> <quote> Contrary to what the right likes to think, the most virtuous ideas will not come out on top</quote> Wait, why not?</quote> Because virtuous ideas are hard and people tend to take the easy way. It's so much easier to hate and blame everyone else for your problems, and far less so to take responsibility for yourself.</quote> This stance has decisively been disproven by history. Was the medieval period not a major improvement over the dark ages? Was the Renaissance not a major improvement over the medieval period? Was the Industrial boom not an improvement over that? And so on and so forth? Are we not more enlightened now than we were 100 years ago? 50 years ago? 20? The only places where society regresses invariably happens in places where only certain viewpoints are tolerated and the rest are harshly penalized. See: Iran after Khomeni, The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Post-Ottoman Middle East, etc etc etc. --- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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