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Don't be the person that thinks "let's ban Nazis" is going to lead to everything in the world turning into Orwell's 1984.

You just don't have enough information about society to make your slippery-slope argument valid.

The world is a lot more complicated than what your simplistic slippery-slope model predicts. Deal with the problem at hand, not some distant theoretical problem based on your simplistic models of life.

You can ban Nazi expression now, and everything will be fine, because society has a lot of safeguards to prevent other bad things from happening.

Don't be simple.




Don't be the person that thinks the world will turn into Orwell's 1984 in a blink-of-an-eye, it happens gradually, bit by bit over time.

Would you like me to list all the freedoms we've already lost? Or are you able to sufficiently navel-gaze and ignore them b/c of your simplistic view of how slippery-slopes work?




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