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		SkyBelow on Feb 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to ... >They deserve the social and political punishment they get. If the "they" are the people supporting the punishment and torture of someone for reporting on corporate incompetence, and the manner of punishment is extremism, then your rationale leads to the extremism you want to punish. By this rationale, society deserves the extremism it gives rise to through its treatment of individuals who were not extremist before the treatment.

krapp on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

> By this rationale, society deserves the extremism it gives rise to through its treatment of individuals who were not extremist before the treatment.

It's a terrible rationale. The extremist ideology, itself, is unjustifiable regardless of the means by which it's acquired.

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