free speech above all else.
without offering the possibility of dissent we fall into a trap of believing an idea without reason.
ideas regardless of their merit should be allowed to propogage. those of weak standing will fall.
such is the natural selection of language.
@wenyuansama @DawnlessEpoch @thezumanetwork @blockworks You should, or read some plot points. If happiness and approval are the goal, these measurements are independent of the causes which could take any form: in BNW, genetic engineering, drugs and conditioning result in a happily-enslaved civilization.
to speak one's true thoughts as they appear in your mind would be social suicide. but this is the case for most people, and yet we still practice the discipline of injecting semantics to obfuscate. it's nothing more than a consensus against reality.
the nature of existence is that of many contrived rules resulting in infinitesimally improbable luck to create a universe filled of humans with such hubris they claim their survival bias of a galactic scale is disingenuous.
you are not special.
once again we must write legislature with great emphasis on precedence: slippery slopes can be fallacious but death spirals truly do exist.
limiting freedoms in any way: this creates such a death spiral.