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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
That's meaningless. I could say the exact opposite and it would have as much validity.
Art's post is dangerous because he places higher value in repression than expression, pointing to expression as the method of savagery. I see savagery in either extreme. It takes a balance of expression and repression to achieve society. To deny this is to invite disaster.
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The problem is that you can't prove that EITHER has value over the other. You say that he places a higher value on repression, where it is equally valid to say that he sees the inherent value of repression that many people want to ignore. Maybe his view is "balance" between the two, and most typically liberal views value expression more than repression.