But new knowledge is always created as people solve problems which inevitably pop up. And the ethics of today are replaced with new ethics (knowledge) as people conjecture new ideas.
This process goes one way. Free speech leads to progress. Using a contrapositive is invalid because I’m not making an equivocacy, I’m making a causal statement. Man drives car doesn’t necessitate that car drives man.
And I’m not saying “ethics” are bad. Only that our current forms of them, like all forms of knowledge, will eventually be replaced by something better (see: all of history).
Anyway, you dodged the question so I’ll try answering it for you: Your sense of ethic in relation to speech was created because people had the freedom to criticize the fact that ethics come from God/priests/kings/tribal elders/et. al and develop new, better forms. In this way, your and my ethical forms will be replaced in the future by something better.
>Man drives car doesn’t necessitate that car drives man.
Fortunately that's not what I implied, and you fail to recognize the error in your own reasoning. I'll say this one final time, and I expect you'll intentionally misunderstand again.
Your point depends on the premise that free speech leads to the improvement of knowledge, which means that if a specific situation arose--even an isolated incident--where your premise of enhanced knowledge were untrue, then it follows that your conclusion that free speech is good would no longer be necessarily true. That is why your statement is false. The rest of what you've written is pseudo-intellectual fluff.
>But new knowledge is always created
This is not a given. You completely made it up. I wish you a pleasant day.
This process goes one way. Free speech leads to progress. Using a contrapositive is invalid because I’m not making an equivocacy, I’m making a causal statement. Man drives car doesn’t necessitate that car drives man.
And I’m not saying “ethics” are bad. Only that our current forms of them, like all forms of knowledge, will eventually be replaced by something better (see: all of history).
Anyway, you dodged the question so I’ll try answering it for you: Your sense of ethic in relation to speech was created because people had the freedom to criticize the fact that ethics come from God/priests/kings/tribal elders/et. al and develop new, better forms. In this way, your and my ethical forms will be replaced in the future by something better.